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Audie vs Audrea

American parents have registered 6,867 Audies since 1880, against 2,112 Audreas. Audie is still ahead, with 53 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Audie Audrea

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

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Audie for 119 years and Audrea for 25 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Audie Audrea
Total US births 6,8672,112
Most in one year 27864
Babies in 2025 53under 5
Estimated living today 3,6001,800
Median age today 5345
Peak year 19561971
Best rank 466th boys1,534th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rdunranked
First recorded 18811910
Girls / boys 2,436 / 4,4312,112 / 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 Audies alive today are over 53; half the Audreas are over 45. That is 8 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: Audie and Audrea.