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Audelia vs Audie

American parents have registered 6,867 Audies since 1880, against 741 Audelias. Audie is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Audelia against Audie, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Audelia Audie

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

Audie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1948, when Audelia had 20 and Audie had 24.

Side by side

  Audelia Audie
Total US births 7416,867
Most in one year 26278
Babies in 2025 under 553
Estimated living today 4303,600
Median age today 5953
Peak year 19281956
Best rank 1,589th girls466th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,583rd
First recorded 19141881
Girls / boys 741 / 02,436 / 4,431

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 Audelias alive today are over 59; half the Audies are over 53. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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