Aurél

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɔʁel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Aurél is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RORomania≈1 in 847(inferred from the name graph)
  • MDMoldova1 in 1.2K
  • ALAlbania1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈25,000 people, est.

Sources
201 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 847 (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aurel in RO Romania, CM Cameroon, BJ Benin and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Romanian

< lat. Aurelius. 1. - act. ; -ia f. 2. Aurelian, dupa numele Imparatului roman, H. + 191). n. modern ; Aurelian, forma veche, la cronicari (Costin). A115 subst. dialectal mor < lat. anus suf. -u§ ; cf. subst. au§el (pasare). 1. Auqul, b. olt. (16 B VI 360) §i t. 2. Auqaca, b. (16 B IV 108). 3. Augan, mar. 4. Auun, Stoica (16 B III 34). 5. Aoqa, s. (0 Dens T) §i Aoaq t. (16 A I 434), sau < ung. ovas seciu".

Sources 3

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aurél counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Aurél is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#763≈25,000 est.≈1 in 847—Aurel25
CN China—≈9,600 est.≈1 in 145K—Aurel6
IT Italy—≈3,100 est.≈1 in 20K3Aurel7
MD Moldova—2,8641 in 1.2K2.9K—3
CM Cameroon#775≈2,700 est.≈1 in 10K—Aurel12
AL Albania—2,3391 in 1.3K2.3K——
BJ Benin#183≈2,200 est.≈1 in 5.8K—Aurel18

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: e-services.md — living population register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aurél is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Romania

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Aurel, Äüręl, Aurèl, Ãūręl, Äürël

  • Ukrainian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Slovak

    Also written Аурел, Aurel, Аурель, Аурэль, Аурэл

  • Romanian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Aurel, Aurèl

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Aurel

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Philippines, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aurel

  • Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

    Also written Aurel, Āūrēl

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Aurel Stodola, b. 1859Aurel Stein, b. 1862Aurel Popovici, b. 1863Aurel Vlaicu, b. 1882Aurel Babeș, b. 1886Jean Aurel, b. 1925Aurel Vernescu, b. 1939Aurel Țicleanu, b. 1959Yann Aurel Bisseck, b. 2000Chrislain Matsima, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Aurél,Hi Aurél, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Aurél?
In the etymology graph, Aurelio, Aurelius and Auke are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Aurél?
A machine transcription gives /ɔʁel/ (IPA) for French.
Is Aurél a male or female name?
Aurél is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Aurél have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Aurél in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aurel.
How common is the name Aurél?
In Moldova, the national register counted 2,864 people named Aurél, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Aurél compared with other names?
In Romania, Aurél is the 763rd most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aurél” — the 763rd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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