girls:
299.9k births since 1881
#126 (98th percentile)
boys:
2.9k births since 1894
#2324 (49th percentile)
overall:
302.8k births since 1881
#252 (97th percentile)
The name Audrey is the #252 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 302,844 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 96.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #126 (97.8% percentile) for all time with 299,916 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #2,324 (49.3% percentile) for all time with 2,928 births since 1894.
Audrey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1894 for boys).
The name Audrey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Audrey reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 96.6% percentile (ranked #33) with 2,907 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 3,873 births per million (ranked 90.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Audrey ranks #72 for girls (92.5% percentile) with 1,733 births per million, which is 44.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Audrey reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 12.6% percentile (ranked #481) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 105 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Audrey ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Audrey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Audrey is pronounced as AW-dree, which has 2 syllables.
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