Aubrey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈɔːbɹi/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Aubrey is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 119,928 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In Guyana it is the 22nd most common given name.
- GYGuyana1 in 1K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2K
- USUnited States1 in 2.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 504 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
119,928 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Aubrey
- English:/ˈɔːbɹi/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aubrey, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aubrey 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #930 | 119,928 | 1 in 2.8K | 105K | Aubrey | 504 |
| ZA South Africa | #269 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Aubrey | 100 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Aubrey | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Aubrey | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | #965 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 4 | Aubrey | 179 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 5 | — | 27 |
| GY Guyana | #22 | 743 | 1 in 1K | 743 | Aubrey | 5 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 16 | — | 5 |
119,928 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Aubrey is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old French/French; nobleman's follower
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aubrey Beardsleyb. 1872GBBritish illustrator and author (1872–1898)
- Aubrey Plazab. 1984USAmerican actress, producer, comedian (born 1984)
- Aubrey Drake Grahamb. 1986CACanadian and American rapper, singer, and actor (born 1986)
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)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)66 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Aubrey a male or female name?
- Aubrey is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024).
- What does the name Aubrey mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Aubrey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 119,928 people named Aubrey in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Aubrey compared with other names?
- In the United States, Aubrey is the 930th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Aubrey?
- In the etymology graph, Alberico, Alberic and Elric are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Aubrey?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 120 thousand people named Aubrey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aubrey. After it come South Africa, Pakistan, Philippines and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Aubrey most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aubrey is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Aubrey?
- In English /ˈɔːbɹi/ (Wiktionary).
What do you want to know about Aubrey?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aubreyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Aubrey” — ranked 469th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.