Aurelio
Masculine · “golden”
Aurelio is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 8,634 boys against 6 girls since 1880.
Aurelio is the Spanish and Italian form of the Roman family name Aurelius, which grew out of the Latin word for gold. It has been in continuous use for something like two thousand years, and it still moves easily between Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Four syllables, the weight landing in the middle: ow-REH-lee-oh.
How old is the name Aurelio?
Aurelio first appears in US birth records in 1904 — 121 years ago. The typical Aurelio alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 6,700 people named Aurelio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aurelio most popular?
Aurelio peaked in 1930, reaching #629 nationally. Today it ranks #681, 52 places below that high. See the whole 1930 chart.
Where it comes from
From Aurelius to Aurelio
The story of Aurelio
Aurelius began as the name of a Roman gens, the Aurelii, one of the plebeian families that rose to prominence in the Republic; its most famous bearer was the second-century emperor Marcus Aurelius. The name outlived the empire because early Christians carried it, and it settled into the Romance languages as Aurelio in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Aurèle in French, Aurel in Romanian. It reached American records through Italian and Spanish-speaking families and has kept a steady, unbroken presence ever since. The feminine Aurelia traveled the same road alongside it.
Meaning
golden
From Latin aureus, "golden", ultimately from aurum, "gold" — the same root behind Spanish oro and Italian oro.
How the name formed
- Aurelius
- Aurelio
Related forms: Aurelio · Aurelio · Aurélio · Aurelius · Aurèle · Aurel
Pronouncing Aurelio
ow-REH-lee-oh
That is the Spanish and Italian pronunciation, with the stress on the second syllable. English speakers often say aw-REE-lee-oh, closer to the Latin Aurelius. Both are in real use, and it helps to decide early which one your family will offer first.
Nicknames for Aurelio
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1904
- Most boys named
- 2025399 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #629reached in 1930
- Change vs 2023
- +52.3%399 in 2025, from 262
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aurelio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aurelio in Spanish — same name
- Aurelio in Italian — same name
- Aurélio in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Aurelius in Latin — same name
- Aurèle in French — related form
- Aurel in Romanian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Aurelios among us
people named Aurelio are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 4,281 born in 2025 was named Aurelio
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Gaetano test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aurelio's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gaetano climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gaetano's path sketches the road Aurelio is walking now.
Aurelio is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Aurelio is headed
Aurelio looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 36% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aurelio beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aurelio in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Works unchanged in Spanish and Italian, and needs only an accent in Portuguese — useful in a bilingual family.
- A documented record stretching back to Roman antiquity, with no gap in use since.
- Spelled the way it sounds for Spanish speakers, and short enough to write without difficulty.
- Comes with a well-established feminine counterpart, Aurelia, if a sister follows.
- Has an existing affectionate short form, Lelo, rather than requiring one to be invented.
- Two pronunciations circulate in the US — the Spanish ow-REH-lee-oh and the anglicized aw-REE-lee-oh — so an Aurelio will likely spend some of his life correcting one or the other, gently or otherwise.
- Lelo, the traditional Spanish short form, doubles as an ordinary Spanish adjective meaning dim-witted or dazed. Within a family it reads as affection; outside one it may need a moment's explanation.
- It sits close to Aurelia, Aureliano and Aurelius, and adults sometimes reach for the wrong one on a first hearing.
- He is unlikely to share the name with anyone in his school. That means never a surname initial appended to it, and also a lifetime of spelling it out at appointments.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aurelios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,700 people named Aurelio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Aurelio in 2025?
- Aurelio ranks #681 among US boy names in 2025, with 399 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aurelio?
- About 1 in every 4,281 US boys born in 2025 was named Aurelio — 399 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aurelio with classmates?
- Aurelio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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