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Aurel vs Auria

American parents have registered 1,271 Aurias since 1880, against 236 Aurels. Auria is still ahead, with 54 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aurel against Auria, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aurel Auria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Auria for 54 years and Aurel for 21 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Aurel Auria
Total US births 2361,271
Most in one year 2175
Babies in 2025 854
Estimated living today 301,300
Median age today 310
Peak year 19272016
Best rank 2,034th boys2,446th girls
Rank in 2025 8,910th3,028th
First recorded 19131952
Girls / boys 33 / 2031,271 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aurias alive today are over 10; half the Aurels are over 3. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aurel Auria
France 1,265280
Switzerland 1,01912
England and Wales 2710

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aurel and Auria.