Audrey

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled אודרי in FR France, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Audrey is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name1.3M records spelled Audrey59 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Aud'Rey, Aùdrey, Au'Drey, Au-Drey, Audrey'

• Polish given name12K records spelled Audrey37 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Одри, Audry, Odri, Одрі, Odry

• Indonesian given name12K records spelled Audrey4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Philippines

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Audrey, Audrey'

• Hindi given name11K records spelled Audrey8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

  Also written অড্রি, Åüdrêy

• Greek given name3.1K records spelled Audrey2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Οντρει

69 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●

Audrey is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Anglo-Saxon ‘noble strength’; early name revived in England, now fairly well established in Ireland.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In French, From English Audrey, short form of Old English Æthelthryth, 'noble strength'.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In English, from the personal name Audrey (Etheldreda), "noble strength"; first attested Aldreda 1066 DB (Nf)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, Old English; Shakespearean character in As You Like It.

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• In English, Aldreda 1066 DB (Nf), 1219 AssY; Robert Audrey 1279 RH (O). The DB personalname may be for OE or all feminine. Of these the most common was the second, ‘noble strength’, popular through the reputation of St. Etheldreda, Queen of Northumbria and foundress of the convent at Ely. This became Audrey and is found in the 14th century in Essex and Suffolk as Etheldreda (1304 AD i (Ess), 1381 SRSf).

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 145 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Audrey Meadowsb. 1922USAmerican actress (1922–1996)
• Audrey Hepburnb. 1929GBBritish actress (1929–1993)
• Audrey Wellsb. 1960USAmerican screenwriter, director and producer (1960–2018)
• Audrey Niffeneggerb. 1963USAmerican writer, artist and academic (born 1963)
• Audrey Azoulayb. 1972FRFrench politician (1972-)
• Audrey Tautoub. 1976FRFrench actress (born 1976)
• Audrey Fleurotb. 1977FRFrench actress (1977)
• Audrey Hollanderb. 1979USAmerican pornographic actress
• Audrey Diwanb. 1980FRFrench film director, screenwriter and journalist
• Audrey Tangb. 1981TWTaiwanese activist, politician and free software programmer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,214 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Audrey?

We estimate roughly 344 thousand people bear Audrey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Audrey have the most bearers?

We estimate about 198 thousand people bear Audrey in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled audrey.

Where is Audrey most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Audrey is densest in France — about 1 in 479 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Audrey compared with other names?

In the United States, Audrey is the 361st most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Audrey a male or female name?

Audrey is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Audrey mean?

Recorded meaning: (i) from the medieval female personal name Audrey, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘ancient power’; (ii) ‘son of Aldreda’, from Old English Æthelthryth ‘noble strength’