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Aubree vs Aubrey

American parents have registered 164,605 Aubreys since 1880, against 49,614 Aubrees. Aubrey is still ahead, with 2,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aubree 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 2014, when Aubree had 4,280 and Aubrey had 7,770.

Side by side

  Aubree Aubrey
Total US births 49,614164,605
Most in one year 4,4638,213
Babies in 2025 6062,073
Estimated living today 49,000147,000
Median age today 1114
Peak year 20132012
Best rank 53rd girls15th girls
Rank in 2025 489th146th
First recorded 19721880
Girls / boys 49,558 / 56133,515 / 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 Aubreys alive today are over 14; half the Aubrees are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aubree Aubrey
England and Wales 1,3423,117
Scotland 67119
Ireland 69109
France 4030
Northern Ireland 419

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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