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Audie vs Audwin

American parents have registered 6,867 Audies since 1880, against 351 Audwins. Audie is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Audie Audwin

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 1987, when Audie had 16 and Audwin had 6.

Side by side

  Audie Audwin
Total US births 6,867351
Most in one year 27825
Babies in 2025 53under 5
Estimated living today 3,600290
Median age today 5358
Peak year 19561958
Best rank 466th boys1,557th boys
Rank in 2025 3,583rdunranked
First recorded 18811953
Girls / boys 2,436 / 4,4310 / 351

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 Audwins alive today are over 58; half the Audies are over 53. That is 5 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 Audwin.