Aurela
Just 246 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name comes from Latin, meaning "golden".
Aurela Pronunciation
Aurela is pronounced ah-oo-RE-lah (/auˈrɛla/).
What Aurela means
Where Aurela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Aurela comes from the Latin aureus, meaning golden. The Roman clan name Aurelius grew from that same word, and the emperor Marcus Aurelius carried it through his reign from 161 to 180. The feminine Aurelia was a Roman name centuries before it spread across Europe.
Three forms stand close together. Aurelia is the fuller variant, and Aurelian is the masculine cross-form a brother might carry. Aurela keeps the shortest shape.
In Polish the sense arrives without detour: złota, golden. A teacher reading a class register in September finds Aurela between older Polish names, its Latin root clear to anyone who knows the word for gold. The meaning asks for no footnote. What the name holds, from Rome to a Polish register, is the plain sense of gold.
How many people are named Aurela
1 in 91642 women in Poland is named Aurela. 246 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1964 among female names.
Aurela as a middle name
Aurela is a first name for 246 women in Poland and a middle name for another 129, a 66/34 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 578th, between Otolia (130) and Kleopatra (129).
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#576 Kira130
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#577 Otolia130
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#578 Aurela129
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#579 Kleopatra129
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#580 Hope128