Given name
Aurélien
“golden”
Aurélien is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in French.
Original LatinAurelianus
Meaning & origin
The story
In French use, Aurélien is a variant of Aurèle. The history of Aurèle gives this family its wider story. Aurèle’s historical associations include various saints, including a 5th-century archbishop of Carthage.
Explained through its name family
Aurélien’s family of names
In French usage, Aurélien shares an earlier linguistic root with Orléans. In French usage, Aurélien has a conventional equivalent in the German form Aurelius. In French usage, Aurélien has a conventional equivalent in the English form Aurelian.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Aurélien has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Aurélien comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Aurelianussource · Latin
- Aurelioequivalent
- AureliusGerman
- Aurelianoequivalent
- AurelianEnglish
- Aurelequivalent
- Aureliuszequivalent
- Aurelijusequivalent
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People named Aurélien
- Aurélien TchouaméniFrench footballer (born 2000)
- Aurélien ChedjouCameroonian and French footballerborn 1985
- OrelsanFrench rapperborn 1982
- Aurélien Paret-PeintreFrench racing cyclistborn 1996
- Aurlus MabéléCongolese singer and composer1953–2020
- Aurélien JoachimLuxembourgish association football playerborn 1986
- Lugné-PoeFrench actor and director (1869–1940)
- Aurélien Clercroad bicycle racerborn 1979
- Aurélien CapoueGuadeloupean footballerborn 1982
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