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Audrey vs Audric

American parents have registered 308,812 Audreys since 1880, against 527 Audrics. Audrey is still ahead, with 2,919 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Audrey Audric

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 2003, when Audrey had 4,007 and Audric had 25.

Side by side

  Audrey Audric
Total US births 308,812527
Most in one year 5,62730
Babies in 2025 2,91913
Estimated living today 210,000520
Median age today 2313
Peak year 20152016
Best rank 37th girls3,596th boys
Rank in 2025 86th6,446th
First recorded 18811989
Girls / boys 305,883 / 2,9290 / 527

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 Audrics are over 13. That is 10 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 Audrey Audric
France 141,7401,930
Belgium 1,583337

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: Audrey and Audric.