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Aubery vs Aubrey

American parents have registered 164,605 Aubreys since 1880, against 606 Auberys. Aubrey is still ahead, with 2,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aubery against Aubrey, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aubery Aubrey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aubrey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1953, when Aubery had 20 and Aubrey had 348.

Side by side

  Aubery Aubrey
Total US births 606164,605
Most in one year 208,213
Babies in 2025 under 52,073
Estimated living today 290147,000
Median age today 6514
Peak year 19532012
Best rank 1,709th boys15th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked146th
First recorded 19131880
Girls / boys 103 / 503133,515 / 31,090

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Auberys alive today are over 65; half the Aubreys are over 14. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aubery Aubrey
France 5530

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aubery and Aubrey.