Aubrey
About 164,605 American babies have been named Aubrey since 1880, most of them around 2012. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 146th. About 147,000 Aubreys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Aubrey boys named Aubrey
Girls and boys called Aubrey
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Aubrey crossed from boys to girls in 1974, and has stayed there for 52 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 98% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 135 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 164,605
- Estimated living today
- 147,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2012
- Best rank
- 15th
- Rank in 2025
- 146th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 133,515 / 31,090
How old the living Aubreys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 164,605 babies given the name since 1880, about 147,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 96,000 of them are children and 4,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages, a surname
From Middle English Aubrey, Aubry, from Norman Auberi, Alberi, from Latin Alberīcus, Latinized form of Old High German Alberich, from Proto-Germanic *Albirīks. Possibly influenced by cel-gau Albiorix (literally "ruler of the world"). Cognates include German Alberich and Italian Alberico.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Aubreys
- Aubrey Plaza (born 1984)American actress, producer, comedian
- Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)British illustrator and author
- Aubrey de Grey (born 1963)British writer and biomedical gerontologist
- Aubrey Modiba (born 1995)South African footballer
- Aubrey Joseph (born 1997)American actor and rapper
- Aubrey Anderson-Emmons (born 2007)American actress
- Aubrey Peeples (born 1993)American actor
- Aubrey O'Day (born 1984)American singer and reality television personality
People named Aubrey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Aubrey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Aubrey is most concentrated in Utah (1.7×), Nevada (1.7×), Virginia (1.6×), Alabama (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2012
The most popular girls’ names the year Aubrey peaked:
Aubrey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Aubrey | 2,326 | 189th |
| England and Wales boys | Aubrey | 791 | 569th |
| Scotland girls | Aubrey | 105 | 293rd |
| Ireland girls | Aubrey | 67 | 365th |
| Ireland boys | Aubrey | 42 | 290th |
| France boys | Aubrey | 20 | 6,776th |
| Scotland boys | Aubrey | 14 | 490th |
| France girls | Aubrey | 10 | 6,363rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Aubrey | 9 | 407th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Aubrey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Aubrey | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Aubrey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.