Aubree
Feminine · “elf ruler”
Aubree is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 49,558 girls against 56 boys since 1880.
Aubree is the phonetic American spelling of Aubrey, a name the Normans carried into England from the Germanic Alberich — the elf-king of old Rhineland legend. It spent eight centuries as an English man's name, then crossed over to girls in the United States, helped along by a soft ballad from the group Bread in the early 1970s. The -ee ending is a plain instruction: say it exactly as it looks.
How old is the name Aubree?
Aubree first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Aubree is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 49,000 people named Aubree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aubree most popular?
Aubree peaked in 2013, reaching #53 nationally. Today it ranks #489, 436 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
Where it comes from
From Alberich to Aubree
The story of Aubree
The root is the Germanic Alberich, borne by the dwarf-king who guards the Nibelung hoard in medieval German legend. Norman French wore it down to Auberi, and Norman speakers brought it to England after 1066, where it settled as Aubrey and stayed a man's name for centuries — you can still find it on English maps and surnames. In twentieth-century America it turned toward girls, and once it did, parents began writing it the way it sounds. Aubree is that respelling: same Norman name, spelled for an English-speaking ear rather than a French one.
Meaning
elf ruler, or elf power
From the Germanic elements alb 'elf' and ric 'power, ruler', joined in the old name Alberich. Aubree carries that meaning through Aubrey, of which it is a respelling.
How the name formed
- Alberich
- Auberi
- Aubrey
- Aubree
Related forms: Aubrey · Aubrie · Alberich · Aubry · Alberico · Alberico
Pronouncing Aubree
AW-bree
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some speakers say OH-bree, closer to the French Aubry, but AW-bree is the standard American reading and the spelling encourages it.
Nicknames for Aubree
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1972
- Most girls named
- 20134,454 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #53reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −21.9%606 in 2025, from 776
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Aubree in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aubrey in English — spelling variant
- Aubrie in English — spelling variant
- Alberich in German — same name
- Aubry in French — same name
- Alberico in Italian — related form
- Alberico in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Aubrees among us
people named Aubree are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,652 born in 2025 was named Aubree
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Arlene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aubree's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Arlene climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Arlene's path sketches the road Aubree is walking now.
Aubree is coming down from a big peak (#53 in 2013). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Aubree is headed
Aubree is easing off slowly — about 34% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Aubree beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aubree in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds in English, so a child rarely has to teach anyone how to say it.
- Comes with Bree ready-made — a short form that also works as a full given name on a resume or a nametag.
- Sits on a documented line running back through Norman French to Germanic Alberich, nearly a thousand years of continuous use.
- Familiar to almost every American ear through Aubrey, so it needs no explanation, only a spelling.
- Aubrey is the spelling most people default to. Expect a lifetime of small corrections on forms, coffee cups and email addresses — manageable, but constant.
- The name's wave is recent and concentrated, so it reads as belonging to a particular slice of American childhood rather than to any generation before it.
- Aubrey is still used for men in Britain and in older American records. The -ee spelling reads as female in the US, but the parent name has two roads and someone will occasionally assume the other one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aubrees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 49,000 people named Aubree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Aubree in 2025?
- Aubree ranks #489 among US girl names in 2025, with 606 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aubree?
- About 1 in every 2,652 US girls born in 2025 was named Aubree — 606 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aubree with classmates?
- Aubree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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