How popular is the name Audrey?

Audrey ranks 139th among girls' names in US records, with 319,458 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 43,937.

Is Audrey a unisex name?

No. Audrey is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2015, when 5,952 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Audry, Audrie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#139 of girl names

Pronounced AO1 D ER0 IY0 (ARPABET)

Audrey is a girls' name, and first appears in 1881. It has been given to 319,458 children — the 139th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2015, when 5,952 children were given it.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Audry and Audrie — because they are pronounced identically.

2015Girls: 5,952Boys: 14

These spellings sound identical to Audrey and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Audrey?: Audrey ranks 139th among girls' names in US records, with 319,458 births since 1881. Over the past decade it accounts for 43,937.
Is Audrey a unisex name?: No. Audrey is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Audrey most popular?: 2015, when 5,952 children were given the name. It has been in use for 144 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Audrey spelled?: Audry, Audrie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.