Aurel
Aurel is a boy's name that peaked in 1927, when it was the 2,034th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 30 Aurels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 3.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aurel boys named Aurel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 236
- Estimated living today
- 30
- Median age today
- 3
- Peak year
- 1927
- Best rank
- 2,034th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 33 / 203
How old the living Aurels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 236 babies given the name since 1913, about 30 are alive — 14 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2022 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Aurels
- Aurel Stein (1862–1943)Hungarian-British archaeologist
- Aurel Stodola (1859–1942)Slovak scientist
- Aurel Vlaicu (1882–1913)Romanian aviation pioneer
- Aurel Popovici (1863–1917)Romanian politician
- Jean Aurel (1925–1996)French screenwriter and film director
- Aurel Țicleanu (born 1959)Romanian footballer
- Aurel Vernescu (1939–2008)Canoe racer
- Aurel Manga (born 1992)French male hurdler
People named Aurel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1927
The most popular boys’ names the year Aurel peaked:
Aurel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Aurel +1 spelling | 1,260 | 864th |
| Switzerland boys | Aurel | 1,019 | 100th |
| England and Wales boys | Aurel | 27 | 2,301st |
| Belgium boys | Aurel | 25 | 928th |
| France girls | Aurel | 5 | 6,554th |
| Poland boys | Aurel | 5 birth registrations | 581st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Aurel: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Aurel | 921 | 0.074% | 86th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Aurel | 95 | 0.022% | 195th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Aurel | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Aurel | 2 | 0.054% | 12th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Aurel is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.15% of children were given it – 137 of them.
Aurel: rank by region
In 2024, Aurel was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Aurel | 882 | 5 |
In 2025, Aurel was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Aurel | 234 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Aurel by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 17 | 321st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Aurel among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Aurel | 11 | 22 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Aurel lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,080 men called Aurel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castellón/Castelló | Aurel | 59 | 0.189 | 465 |
| Huesca | Aurel | 18 | 0.154 | 496 |
| Lleida | Aurel | 36 | 0.153 | 563 |
| Rioja, La | Aurel | 24 | 0.149 | 513 |
| Cuenca | Aurel | 14 | 0.139 | 530 |
| Zaragoza | Aurel | 66 | 0.135 | 508 |
Listed in 35 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 17 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Aurel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.