The story in the numbers

302,938 girls have been named Audrey in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 5,613 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 36 → 82).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 144 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 43 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,928 boys have also been given it, 0.96% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

By decade

Decade

girls named Audrey

253

950

2,707

13,139

37,550

34,007

19,717

22,225

17,867

10,378

14,670

19,530

41,514

51,610

16,821

In 2015, its biggest year

Audrey was the 37th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Audrey

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.