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Aubrey vs Aubryn

American parents have registered 164,605 Aubreys since 1880, against 507 Aubryns. Aubrey is still ahead, with 2,073 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aubrey Aubryn

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 2022, when Aubrey had 3,134 and Aubryn had 24.

Side by side

  Aubrey Aubryn
Total US births 164,605507
Most in one year 8,21336
Babies in 2025 2,07314
Estimated living today 147,000500
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20122010
Best rank 15th girls4,107th girls
Rank in 2025 146th7,491st
First recorded 18801997
Girls / boys 133,515 / 31,090507 / 0

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 Aubreys alive today are over 14; half the Aubryns are over 12. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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