girls:
129.2k births since 1889
#309 (95th percentile)
boys:
30.9k births since 1880
#657 (86th percentile)
overall:
160.2k births since 1880
#472 (94th percentile)
The name Aubrey is the #472 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 160,162 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #309 (94.6% percentile) for all time with 129,238 births since 1889. For boys, it ranks #657 (85.7% percentile) for all time with 30,924 births since 1880.
Aubrey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1889 for girls).
The name Aubrey has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 95.1% of babies named Aubrey were girls. Interestingly, until around 1977, the name was more popular for boys (92.3% boys from 1880 to 1976), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (94.0% girls from 1977 to 2023).
For girls, Aubrey reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 98.5% percentile (ranked #15) with 4,155 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 4,155 births per million (ranked 98.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aubrey ranks #98 for girls (89.7% percentile) with 1,471 births per million, which is 35.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Aubrey reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 56.2% percentile (ranked #242) with 435 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 523 births per million (ranked 47.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Aubrey ranks #783 for boys (14.1% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 13.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aubrey".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aubrey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Aubrey is pronounced as AW-bree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-bree, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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