Aubrey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Aubrey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 22nd most common given name.
- GYGuyana1 in 1K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.1K
- 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 504 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
119,928 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the medieval male personal name Aubri, of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘elf-power’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Aubrey | 100 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Aubrey | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Aubrey | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | #965 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 4 | Aubrey | 179 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 5 | — | 27 |
| GY Guyana | #22 | 743 | 1 in 1K | 743 | Aubrey | 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; 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 Morrisb. 1926GBBritish actor (1926-2015)
- Seymour Papertb. 1928USnot in their usual nameMIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)
- Aubrey de Greyb. 1963GBBritish writer and biomedical gerontologist
- Aubrey Dollarb. 1980USAmerican actress
- Aubrey Plazab. 1984USAmerican actress, producer, comedian (born 1984)
- Aubrey Drake Grahamb. 1986CACanadian and American rapper, singer, and actor (born 1986)
- Aubrey Peeplesb. 1993USAmerican actor
- Aubrey Josephb. 1997USAmerican actor and rapper
- Aubrey Anderson-Emmonsb. 2007USAmerican actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 105K | #469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15K | #469 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 2K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 743 | #107 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 70 | — |
| ZM Zambia | ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results | 2021 | 5 | #40 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 4 | #619 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | 3 | #407 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 3 | #790 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Aubrey a male or female name?
- Aubrey is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- 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.
- In which country does Aubrey have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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” — the 930th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.