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Audie vs Audrene

American parents have registered 6,867 Audies since 1880, against 41 Audrenes. Audie is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Audie against Audrene, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Audie Audrene

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

Audie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1933, when Audie had 40 and Audrene had 6.

Side by side

  Audie Audrene
Total US births 6,86741
Most in one year 2788
Babies in 2025 53under 5
Estimated living today 3,60016
Median age today 5368
Peak year 19561926
Best rank 466th boys3,564th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rdunranked
First recorded 18811926
Girls / boys 2,436 / 4,43141 / 0

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 Audrenes alive today are over 68; half the Audies are over 53. That is 15 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: Audie and Audrene.