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Audra vs Audrie

American parents have registered 25,783 Audras since 1880, against 4,108 Audries. Audra is still ahead, with 95 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Audra against Audrie, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Audra Audrie

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

Audra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1887 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Audra had 173 and Audrie had 143.

Side by side

  Audra Audrie
Total US births 25,7834,108
Most in one year 1,158143
Babies in 2025 9528
Estimated living today 22,0003,300
Median age today 4419
Peak year 19672011
Best rank 246th girls1,531st girls
Rank in 2025 2,002nd4,758th
First recorded 18871902
Girls / boys 25,590 / 1934,103 / 5

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 Audras alive today are over 44; half the Audries are over 19. That is 25 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Audra Audrie
England and Wales 213

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: Audra and Audrie.