Aurelia
Aurelia (also spelled Aurélia or Aurelija) is a feminine given name from the Latin family name Aurelius, which was derived from aureus meaning "golden". The name began from minor early saints but was given as a name due to its meaning, and not from where it originated. Aurelia may refer to:
Ancient and medieval ages
- A woman of the gens Aurelia of Ancient Rome
- Aurelia Cotta (120 BC-54 BC), mother of Julius Caesar
- Aurelia of Strasbourg, 4th century saint
- Aurelia of Regensburg (died 1027), Roman Catholic saint
Modern
- Aurelia Brădeanu (born 1979), Romanian handballer
- Aurelia Browder (1919-1971), African-American civil rights activist
- Aurelia Ciurea (born 1982), Romanian aerobic gymnast
- Aurelia Courtney (born 2014), daughter of American Bravo TV stars Nadine Jolie Courtney and Erik Courtney
- Aurelia Dobre (born 1972), Romanian gymnast
- Aurelia Frick (born 1975), Liechtenstein politician, current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Education and Culture
- Aurelija Mikušauskaitė (1937-1974), Lithuanian actress
- Aurelia Pentón (born 1941), Cuban track and field athlete
- Aurelia Plath (1906-1994), mother of American poet Sylvia Plath
- Aurélia de Souza (1867–1922), Portuguese painter
- Aurelia Tizón, first wife of Argentine president Juan Perón
- Aurelia Trywiańska (born 1976), Polish hurdler
Other uses
- Aurelia is a genus of scyphozoan jellyfish
- Aurelia is the name of a JavaScript client framework for building modern web applications (http://aurelia.io)
See also
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