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Aubrey
Pronounced /ˈɔːbɹi/
Rank in 2024
#130
Born in 2024
2,209
Peak year
2012 · #15
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:94 in 2024 (#1,760)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,209 girls were named Aubrey, about 1 in every 730.
- It peaked in 2012 with 8,059 babies, ranked #15.
- It first shows up in the records in 1889.
- 131,479 girls have been named Aubrey since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Aubrey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 1.9Gen Z1997–12
- 3.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 468 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 306 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 177 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,600 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,589 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen Z: 53,786 babies, 1.85 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 60,524 babies, 2.98 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Aubrey, Aubry, from Norman Auberi, Alberi, from Latin Alberīcus, Latinized form of Old High German Alberich, from Proto-Germanic *Albirīks, from *albiz (“elf, fairy”) + *rīks (“king, ruler”). Possibly influenced by Gaulish Albiorīx (literally "ruler of the world"). Cognates include German Alberich and Italian Alberico.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages or transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1970s and later American usage.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɔːbɹi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Aubrey, CC BY-SA 4.0.