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Audrey vs Audreyanna

American parents have registered 308,812 Audreys since 1880, against 418 Audreyannas. Audrey is still ahead, with 2,919 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Audrey against Audreyanna, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Audrey Audreyanna

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

Audrey 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 1989, when Audrey had 1,702 and Audreyanna had 26.

Side by side

  Audrey Audreyanna
Total US births 308,812418
Most in one year 5,62726
Babies in 2025 2,919under 5
Estimated living today 210,000410
Median age today 2321
Peak year 20151989
Best rank 37th girls3,784th girls
Rank in 2025 86thunranked
First recorded 18811989
Girls / boys 305,883 / 2,929418 / 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 Audreys alive today are over 23; half the Audreyannas are over 21. 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: Audrey and Audreyanna.