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Audree vs Audrey

American parents have registered 308,812 Audreys since 1880, against 3,727 Audrees. Audrey is still ahead, with 2,919 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Audree against Audrey, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Audree Audrey

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

Audrey 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 2013, when Audree had 196 and Audrey had 5,618.

Side by side

  Audree Audrey
Total US births 3,727308,812
Most in one year 1965,627
Babies in 2025 362,919
Estimated living today 3,100210,000
Median age today 1323
Peak year 20132015
Best rank 1,227th girls37th girls
Rank in 2025 3,975th86th
First recorded 19041881
Girls / boys 3,727 / 0305,883 / 2,929

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 Audreys alive today are over 23; half the Audrees are over 13. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Audree Audrey
France 20 Audrée141,740
England and Wales 32,408

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Related comparisons

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