girls:
33 births since 1914
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
195 births since 1913
#4391 (4th percentile)
overall:
228 births since 1913
#7511 (3rd percentile)
The name Aurel is the #7,511 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 228 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 2.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,391 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 195 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1914.
Aurel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Aurel is available in 24 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (24 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aurel has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Aurel were boys.
For boys, Aurel reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #528) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 16 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aurel ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 17.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aurel reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #509) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aurel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Aurel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Aurel is pronounced as AW-rehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is aw-REHL, at 35.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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