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Audra vs Audwin

American parents have registered 25,783 Audras since 1880, against 351 Audwins. Audra is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Audra 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

Of the 139 years in which either name was published, Audra for 138 years and Audwin for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Audra Audwin
Total US births 25,783351
Most in one year 1,15825
Babies in 2025 95under 5
Estimated living today 22,000290
Median age today 4458
Peak year 19671958
Best rank 246th girls1,557th boys
Rank in 2025 2,002ndunranked
First recorded 18871953
Girls / boys 25,590 / 1930 / 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 Audras are over 44. That is 14 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 Audwin.