Aubrey

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Aubrey is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 1K◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 2.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 3.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈106K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
456 ●

381K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.0K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aubrey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#942104,945312K rec.1 in 3.2K105KAubrey456
PH Philippines—13,7799.9K rec.——Aubrey112
GB United Kingdom—13,22015K rec.—4Aubrey132
ZA South Africa#25712,25613K rec.——Aubrey95
CA Canada#74111,6156.7K rec.—31Aubrey133
AU Australia—6,9646.9K rec.—73Aubrey107
IT Italy—1,3041.5K rec.—1Aubrey21
GY Guyana#207431.3K rec.1 in 1K743Aubrey6
SG Singapore#673719785 rec.——Aubrey32
MY Malaysia—694640 rec.——Aubrey36
NL Netherlands—178269 rec.—38Aubrey28
IN India—87426 rec.——Aubrey42

Roughly 105K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 3.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English353K83%
  • Spanish19K4%
  • 6.6K2%
  • Swahili4.4K1%
  • French3.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English353,48983%
Spanish18,8804%
6,6422%
Swahili4,4451%
French3,5111%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aubrey is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name26K records spelled Aubrey11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Au'Brey, Aubreý, Aubréy, Aübrey, Âubrëy

  • French given name4.9K records spelled Aubrey3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, South Africa, Philippines

    Also written Aübrey

  • Thai given name1.6K records spelled Aubrey9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, South Africa, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written ออบรีย์, Aübrey, ออบรย, Opri, Aübrêy

75 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aubrey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Old French/French; nobleman's follower

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.1K · 2012

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Aubrey in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188021
188115
188216
188320
188418
188511
188610
188734
188818
188915
189021
189120
189235
189332
189439
189537
189650
189746
189845
189942
190062
190143
190249
190356
190460
190569
190667
190776
190867
190984
1910105
1911107
1912236
1913255
1914313
1915394
1916429
1917437
1918429
1919391
1920478
1921480
1922464
1923452
1924455
1925458
1926498
1927393
1928429
1929395
1930392
1931383
1932406
1933357
1934372
1935348
1936361
1937376
1938389
1939389
1940354
1941373
1942401
1943373
1944321
1945291
1946334
1947307
1948319
1949299
1950293
1951340
1952311
1953348
1954338
1955299
1956368
1957375
1958360
1959338
1960275
1961261
1962256
1963246
1964244
1965193
1966200
1967192
1968208
1969196
1970204
1971219
1972179
1973169
1974185
1975229
1976263
1977335
1978389
1979471
1980480
1981527
1982638
1983591
1984623
1985770
1986721
1987821
1988838
1989793
1990936
1991924
19921,108
19931,058
19941,104
19951,044
19961,094
19971,134
19981,252
19991,252
20001,410
20011,505
20021,641
20031,757
20041,816
20052,264
20063,660
20074,506
20085,570
20095,408
20105,367
20117,188
20128,061
20137,985
20147,635
20157,403
20166,552
20175,937
20185,209
20194,598
20203,921
20213,517
20222,999
20232,578
20242,217
20252,003

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Aubrey Beardsley, b. 1872Aubrey Morris, b. 1926Seymour Papert, b. 1928Aubrey de Grey, b. 1963Aubrey Dollar, b. 1980Aubrey Plaza, b. 1984Aubrey Drake Graham, b. 1986Aubrey Peeples, b. 1993Aubrey Joseph, b. 1997Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, b. 2007

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 65 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Aubrey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020105K#469
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#469
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.8K#7,046
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.3K#7,397
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.3K#7,133
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252K—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025743#107
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024174—
AU AustraliaAustralian national given names (aggregated state BDM)202373—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202570—
AU AustraliaAU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD)202555#91
AU AustraliaQLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present)202555—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 590 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aubrey?
We estimate roughly 106 thousand people bear Aubrey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Aubrey have the most bearers?
We estimate about 105 thousand people bear Aubrey in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aubrey.
Where is Aubrey most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aubrey is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Aubrey compared with other names?
In the United States, Aubrey is the 942nd most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Aubrey a male or female name?
Aubrey is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Aubrey mean?
Recorded meaning: From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aubrey” — the 942nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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