Highest ever

Aurelia

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#290
1,056 girls
2015
#799
rank
1950
#913
rank

Aurelia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,056 in 2025. Its best rank was #290 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Aurelia in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#290 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,056
Since 1880
18,435
Years on record
146

Babies named Aurelia, every year since 1880

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Girls

Aurelia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,056 girls in 2025. Peak: #290 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,056 (2025).

About the name Aurelia

In 2025, 1,056 US girls were named Aurelia, making it the 290th most common girls’ name of the year, up 44 places from #334 in 2024. That is 118 more than the 938 girls named Aurelia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #290, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,056. For comparison, it was #799 in 2015 and #913 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Aurelia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 21 babies with the name. In all, 18,435 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,630 babies named Aurelia.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,407 US girls were named Aurelia; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,056. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,522 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Aurelia ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #62 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Aurelio (8,640 babies since 1880) and Areli (6,739 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aurelie, Arelia and Arelie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Aurilla, Ora, Orilla, Ree and Rilly.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic, Italian, Polish and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Aurelie (606), Arelia (317), Arelie (127), Aurellia (89), Aureliana (76), Auralia (47), Aralia (40), Aureli (13), Auraelia (12), Arelio (10), Aurelya (6), Aurely (6), and more.

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

  • Aurilla
  • Ora
  • Orilla
  • Ree
  • Rilly

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Aurelia by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 11 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Alaska9#62—
Connecticut22#138—
Arizona44#141#862
Colorado38#152#280
Washington46#155#598
Montana6#172—
New Mexico8#185#391
South Dakota6#191—
California169#198#874
Wisconsin27#201#694
Oregon18#202#428
Nebraska10#225—
New Hampshire5#238—
Nevada10#268—
Idaho8#278—
New York59#284#928
Kansas11#291—
Texas114#300#1,016
Iowa11#304—
Virginia27#310#593
Illinois34#316#814
Missouri18#332#751
Tennessee24#336#944
Massachusetts17#338—
New Jersey24#341#1,071
Minnesota16#345#295
North Carolina31#354#905
Utah12#365#499
Florida49#376#870
Pennsylvania28#386#682
Oklahoma10#403—
Michigan21#409#591
Maryland12#431—
Ohio25#448#1,072
Georgia24#472#1,351
South Carolina10#474—
Louisiana9#485#793
Alabama8#582—
Kentucky6#666#740
Indiana6#933#1,096

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,056#290——
2024938#334——
2023829#370——
2022644#489——
2021595#518——
2020568#531——
2019453#642——
2018456#652——
2017435#674——
2016433#675——
2015353#799——
2014334#830——
2013320#832——
2012253#1,000——
2011242#1,031——
2010215#1,137——
2009225#1,121——
2008169#1,408——
2007124#1,745——
2006125#1,683——
2005112#1,757——
200480#2,206——
200383#2,106——
200274#2,231——
200155#2,707——
200058#2,570——
199952#2,680——
199860#2,339——
199762#2,201——
199659#2,254——
199555#2,369——
199463#2,143——
199368#2,034——
199265#2,078——
199165#2,075——
199075#1,881——
198948#2,414——
198866#1,867——
198753#2,067——
198647#2,197——
198560#1,857——
198466#1,658——
198351#1,994——
198270#1,642——
198153#1,987——
198059#1,834——
197975#1,544——
197851#1,915——
197762#1,683——
197664#1,569——
197550#1,840——
197453#1,710——
197358#1,590——
197260#1,544——
197170#1,467——
197048#1,830——
196951#1,687——
196848#1,679——
196751#1,581——
196652#1,550——
196545#1,673——
196444#1,749——
196348#1,649——
196256#1,497——
196163#1,406——
196069#1,328——
195957#1,417——
195859#1,379——
195773#1,228——
195688#1,102——
195587#1,081——
195491#1,028——
195369#1,164——
195264#1,185——
195183#1,021——
195095#913——
194993#919——
194887#930——
194788#942——
194684#912——
194591#784——
194473#893——
194385#844——
194280#859——
194194#728——
194079#796——
193965#868——
1938108#660——
193799#683——
1936101#658——
193596#680——
1934124#582——
193394#672——
1932115#616——
1931118#609——
1930148#558——
1929123#619——
1928157#559——
1927169#544——
1926177#525——
1925187#516——
1924187#524——
1923179#529——
1922144#601——
1921166#551——
1920174#539——
1919158#548——
1918188#494——
1917173#502——
1916162#513——
1915164#481——
1914111#526——
1913102#503——
191290#504——
191181#456——
191069#490——
190971#440——
190883#399——
190772#420——
190649#492——
190547#490——
190440#521——
190346#470——
190250#440——
190153#411——
190066#415——
189954#390——
189856#413——
189744#441——
189642#448——
189545#421——
189446#409——
189345#401——
189236#453——
189133#441——
189033#446——
188935#411——
188836#414——
188725#447——
188629#401——
188517#524——
188421#438——
188314#523——
188218#434——
188115#436——
188021#353——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).