Audrey

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: (i) from the medieval female personal name Audrey, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘ancient power’; (ii) ‘son of Aldreda’, from Old English Æthelthryth ‘noble strength’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɔdɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Audrey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 1.3K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.6K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈580,000 people, est.

#890 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
556 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AudreyLatin(measured from records)
אודריHebrew(measured from records)
ออเดรียThai(measured from records)
오드리Hangul(measured from records)

Locally spelled אודרי in FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

(i) from the medieval female personal name Audrey, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘ancient power’; (ii) ‘son of Aldreda’, from Old English Æthelthryth ‘noble strength’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Audrey is read(measured from records)

Audrey is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English62%

    (i) from the medieval female personal name Audrey, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘ancient power’; (ii) ‘son of Aldreda’, from Old English Æthelthryth ‘noble strength’

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    Anglo-Saxon ‘noble strength’; early name revived in England, now fairly well established in Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

    from the personal name Audrey (Etheldreda), "noble strength"; first attested Aldreda 1066 DB (Nf)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    Old English; Shakespearean character in As You Like It.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

    Aldreda 1066 DB (Nf), 1219 AssY; Robert Audrey 1279 RH (O). The DB personalname may be for OE or all feminine. Of these the most common was the second, ‘noble strength’, popular through the reputation of St. Etheldreda, Queen of Northumbria and foundress of the convent at Ely. This became Audrey and is found in the 14th century in Essex and Suffolk as Etheldreda (1304 AD i (Ess), 1381 SRSf).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • French27%

    From English Audrey, short form of Old English Æthelthryth, 'noble strength'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Audrey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Audrey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈580,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Audrey34
US United States#362198,8261 in 1.7K198KAudrey556
FR France—≈150,000 est.≈1 in 444142Kאודרי15
GB United Kingdom#288≈42,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K28Audrey260
CA Canada#316≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K61Audrey248
BE Belgium#891≈11,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K38Audrey110
IE Ireland#180≈3,900 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Audrey102
SG Singapore#173≈3,900 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Audrey123

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Audrey is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name59 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Canada

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aud'Rey, Aùdrey, Au'Drey, Au-Drey, Audréy

  • Polish given name37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Одри, Audry, Audrie, Odri, Одрі

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Audrey, Audrey'

  • Hindi given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written অড্রি, Åüdrêy

  • Greek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Οντρει

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Audrey Meadows, b. 1922Audrey Hepburn, b. 1929Audrey Wells, b. 1960Audrey Niffenegger, b. 1963Audrey Azoulay, b. 1972Audrey Tautou, b. 1976Audrey Fleurot, b. 1977Audrey Hollander, b. 1979Audrey Diwan, b. 1980Audrey Tang, b. 1981

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Audrey,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 96 sources across 56 countries.

Official registers attesting Audrey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020198K#280
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024142K#1,566
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.9K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020806#280
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)2024380—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)1989150#1,180
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender202461#42
CA CanadaStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01)199510—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns)20249#867

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Audrey a male or female name?
Audrey is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Audrey mean, and where does it come from?
(i) from the medieval female personal name Audrey, ultimately of Germanic origin, literally ‘ancient power’; (ii) ‘son of Aldreda’, from Old English Æthelthryth ‘noble strength’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What are other forms of the name Audrey?
In the etymology graph, Audra, Audrea and Odrija are forms of the same name in other languages; Audie is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Audrey have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 576 thousand people named Audrey in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled audrey.
How common is the name Audrey?
In the United States, the national register counted 198,826 people named Audrey in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
How common is Audrey compared with other names?
In Singapore, Audrey is the 173rd most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Audrey?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɔdɹi/ (IPA) for English.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Audrey” — the 173rd most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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