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Audra vs Audry

American parents have registered 25,783 Audras since 1880, against 4,525 Audrys. Audra is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Audra Audry

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

Of the 139 years in which either name was published, Audra for 108 years and Audry for 31 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Audra Audry
Total US births 25,7834,525
Most in one year 1,158105
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 22,0002,400
Median age today 4442
Peak year 19671928
Best rank 246th girls759th girls
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 18871893
Girls / boys 25,590 / 1934,029 / 496

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 Audrys are over 42. That is 2 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.

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