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Audra vs Audreyanna

American parents have registered 25,783 Audras since 1880, against 418 Audreyannas. Audra is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Audra against Audreyanna, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Audra Audreyanna

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

Audra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1887 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Audra had 184 and Audreyanna had 21.

Side by side

  Audra Audreyanna
Total US births 25,783418
Most in one year 1,15826
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 22,000410
Median age today 4421
Peak year 19671989
Best rank 246th girls3,784th girls
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 18871989
Girls / boys 25,590 / 193418 / 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 Audras alive today are over 44; half the Audreyannas are over 21. That is 23 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: Audra and Audreyanna.