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Aubrey
Pronounced /ˈɔːbɹi/
Rank in 2024
#1,760
Born in 2024
94
Peak year
1926 · #249
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:2,209 in 2024 (#130)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 94 boys were named Aubrey, about 1 in every 18,248.
- It peaked in 1926 with 498 babies, ranked #249.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 31,019 boys 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.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 7,345 babies, 0.44 per 1,000. Silent: 6,710 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,911 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,007 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,271 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,510 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,658 babies, 0.08 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.