In 2025, 2,919 US girls were named Audrey, making it the 86th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #82 in 2024. That is 87 fewer than the 3,006 girls named Audrey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #33, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 5,613, in 2015. For comparison, it was #37 in 2015 and #158 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Audrey in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 11 babies. In all, 308,812 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 51,702 babies named Audrey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 39,121 US girls were named Audrey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 5,369. In 2025 that was about 1 in 551 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Audrey ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #45 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 30 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Audrie (4,108 babies since 1880), Audree (3,727 babies since 1880), Audry (4,525 babies since 1880) and Audrea (2,112 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Audria, Adrea and Audrei are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Audree and Dee.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.