Highest ever

Aurelius

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#991
230 boys
2015
#2,922
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Aurelius: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 230 in 2025. Its best rank was #991 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 Aurelius in 2025 was a boy.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#991 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
230
Since 1880
1,764
Years on record
67

Babies named Aurelius, every year since 1880

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Boys

Aurelius: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 230 boys in 2025. Peak: #991 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 230 (2025).

About the name Aurelius

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.

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Arelis (1,015).

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

No nicknames listed for Aurelius in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Aurelius by state, 2025

US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New Mexico6#319—
Nevada5#519—
Washington12#580—
Minnesota7#651—
California35#747#2,303
Texas35#779—
Arizona7#786—
Wisconsin5#791—
Tennessee6#934—
Virginia6#979—
New York12#997—
Florida13#1,013—
Georgia5#1,368—

Rank by year

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

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025——230#991
2024——190#1,122
2023——164#1,214
2022——133#1,395
2021——87#1,801
2020——72#1,978
2019——74#1,974
2018——52#2,477
2017——43#2,805
2016——49#2,557
2015——40#2,922
2014——39#2,936
2013——40#2,852
2012——39#2,959
2011——35#3,172
2010——43#2,793
2009——19#4,936
2008——19#4,917
2007——24#4,133
2006——20#4,531
2005——14#5,595
2004——17#4,816
2003——16#4,834
2002——14#5,156
2001——15#4,909
2000——6#9,188
1998——6#8,572
1997——6#8,213
1996——5#9,122
1991——5#8,313
1990——5#8,211
1989——9#5,201
1988——6#6,493
1983——7#4,961
1982——7#5,055
1981——6#5,542
1979——6#5,408
1978——5#5,867
1976——9#3,742
1975——5#5,536
1972——6#4,479
1971——7#3,995
1970——5#4,776
1968——6#3,703
1964——7#3,304
1963——5#4,076
1960——5#4,071
1954——5#3,860
1947——8#2,884
1942——5#3,599
1935——6#3,285
1931——7#3,111
1930——7#3,311
1929——8#3,004
1928——6#3,733
1927——6#3,807
1926——5#4,253
1925——10#2,763
1924——7#3,522
1923——9#2,962
1921——8#3,234
1919——5#4,199
1918——8#3,122
1917——10#2,565
1915——10#2,466
1914——6#2,946
1913——6#2,523

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).