Entry № 1070 · Latin origin

Aurelia Aurelia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ aw-REE-lee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Golden"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "golden".

Aurelia comes from the Latin aurum, meaning "gold," and was the feminine form of the Roman family name Aurelius. The mother of Julius Caesar was named Aurelia Cotta — by all ancient accounts a formidable woman who raised one of history's most consequential figures.

Aurelia entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2014 and has been climbing rapidly. Today it sits in the U.S.

Golden. The name of Caesar's mother.

The name in its native script.

Aurelia
Transliteration
Aurelia
Pronunciation
/ ɔːˈriː.li.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aurelia stands.

Aurelia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aurelias before her.

Real people
Aurelia Cotta
Mother of Julius Caesar.
c. 120 – 54 BCE
In fiction
Aurelia Plath
Mother of Sylvia Plath, frequently in her writing.
Plath letters

Names connected to Aurelia.

The number behind Aurelia.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aurelia reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.