In 2025, 230 US boys were named Aurelius, making it the 991st most common boys’ name of the year, up 131 places from #1,122 in 2024. That is 40 more than the 190 boys named Aurelius in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #991, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 230. For comparison, it was #2,922 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aurelius in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 1,764 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 876 babies named Aurelius.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,094 US boys were named Aurelius; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 230. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,426 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aurelius ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #319 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aurelio (8,640 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arelis are summarised on this page.