Aurelius
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɒːɹiːʎiəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aurelius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 472K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 61K
- NLNetherlands1 in 76K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aurelius, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aurelius 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Aurelius | 3 |
| US United States | 705 | 1 in 472K | 683 | Aurelius | 123 |
| NL Netherlands | 228 | 1 in 76K | 228 | Aurelius | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 114 | 1 in 89K | 114 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | 91 | 1 in 61K | 125 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 276K | 71 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | 6 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Aurelius is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Name of a plebeian Roman gens.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
⇒ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
as a word국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aurelius Müllerb. 1741HUsuperintendent (1741-1806)
- Marcus Aurelius Rootb. 1808USAmerican photographer (1808–1888)
- Charles Aurelius Smithb. 1861USAmerican politician (1861-1916)
- Aurelius Arkenaub. 1900DEGerman priest (1900–1991)
- Aurelius Battagliab. 1910USAmerican artist (1910-1984)
- Aurelius H. Piper, Sr.b. 1916USNative American activist
- Aurelius Efstratiadisb. 1926GRGreek writer and poet
- Marcus Robertob. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1930-1986)
- Marcus A. Hitchcockb. 1963USnot in their usual nameU.S. Navy rear admiral
- Marcus Anderson Jr.b. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican model
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 29 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 does the name Aurelius mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Latin; of mostly historical use in the Anglo-Saxon world. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Aurelius?
- A machine transcription gives /ɒːɹiːʎiəs/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Aurelius?
- In the etymology graph, Aurelio, Aurelie and Aurel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Aurelius a male or female name?
- Aurelius 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 Aurelius have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Aurelius in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aurelius.
- Where is Aurelius most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aurelius is densest in Finland — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aurelius?
- In the United States, the national register counted 705 people named Aurelius in 2020, about 1 in 472 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Aurelius?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aureliusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Aurelius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.