Aurélien
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Meaning
golden (French, from Latin Aurelius); famously borne by France midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni
The story
Aurélien is French gold: the descendant of the Roman family name Aurelius, rooted in aurum, the Latin word for gold, and echoed by the emperor Aurelian, who briefly stitched a fracturing Rome back together in the third century. France kept the name polished across the centuries, and it remains a familiar choice there while staying almost unknown in the English-speaking world. Its current standard-bearer is Aurélien Tchouaméni, the France midfielder whom Real Madrid signed from Monaco in 2022 in one of the biggest deals ever made for a player in his position, and who won the Champions League in 2024. In American records Aurélien was absent for the entire length of the chart until a first flicker in the 2020s, which makes it a genuinely rare pick: four syllables of French polish with actual gold at the root.
How popular is Aurélien around the world?
Aurélien does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick. In France, about 100 boys named Aurélien were born in 2025, the 461st most common name among boys that year.
Aurélien is on the official records of France, England and Wales and Spain.
United States
under 5 a year
Aurélien does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
France
1 in 6,400
In France, about 100 boys named Aurélien were born in 2025, the 461st most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. This registry counts each spelling separately; the figures above are for the exact spelling Aurélien, and accented spellings are separate names. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
England and Wales
1 in 120,000
In England and Wales, 5 boys named Aurélien were born in 2025, ranked 3,684th among boys that year.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Spain
1 in 950,000
In Spain, 47 residents are named Aurélien, ranked 15,198th among men, with a mean age of 37.7 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Canada
last on record 2023
Aurélien is not on the 2024 record for Canada, where names under 5 in a year are excluded at source.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
South Australia
last on record 2015
Aurélien is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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