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Aubre vs Aubrey

American parents have registered 164,605 Aubreys since 1880, against 813 Aubres. Aubrey is still ahead, with 2,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aubre against Aubrey, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aubre Aubrey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aubrey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1973, when Aubre had 5 and Aubrey had 311.

Side by side

  Aubre Aubrey
Total US births 813164,605
Most in one year 388,213
Babies in 2025 under 52,073
Estimated living today 800147,000
Median age today 1814
Peak year 20132012
Best rank 3,918th girls15th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked146th
First recorded 19731880
Girls / boys 798 / 15133,515 / 31,090

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aubres alive today are over 18; half the Aubreys are over 14. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aubre and Aubrey.