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Auriel

Auriel is a girl's name that peaked in 1991, when it was the 2,270th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 7,491st. About 970 Auriels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Auriel boys named Auriel

Girls and boys called Auriel

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 870 girls and 111 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 14 to 13.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 13 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
981
Estimated living today
970
Median age today
22
Peak year
1991
Best rank
2,270th
Rank in 2025
7,491st
First recorded
1979
Girls / boys
870 / 111

How old the living Auriels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 981 babies given the name since 1979, about 970 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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.

Where Auriel is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1991

The most popular girls’ names the year Auriel peaked:

All the names of 1991

Auriel elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Auriel 40 4,082nd
England and Wales girls Auriel 6 5,691st
France girls Auriel 5 6,124th

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.

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Auriel against another name

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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.