Aubrei
Feminine · “elf power”
Look at the end of Aubrei and notice what English does not have: no native English word ends in -ei. The ending is borrowed whole from languages that do, Scandinavian and German among them, and it gives the name a look that no part of its actual history supports.
How old is the name Aubrei?
Aubrei first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Aubrei is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Aubrei are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aubrei most popular?
Aubrei peaked in 2014, reaching #2922 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 3,403 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alberic to Aubrei
The story of Aubrei
Aubrey came to England with the Normans as a man's name, ran quietly for eight centuries as both a given name and a surname, and then crossed to girls in the United States in the 1970s, a shift usually credited to the Bread song of 1972. Once it was a girls' name the respellings began, and Aubrei belongs to the last stage of that process: the vowel is unchanged, the sound is unchanged, only the written ending is exchanged for one that English does not otherwise produce. That is the point of it. A spelling with no native precedent cannot be confused with anything, and Aubrei reached its best year in 2014.
Meaning
elf power, or ruler of the elves
From the Germanic Alberic, combining alf, elf, with ric, power or ruler. The elves in question are the beings of Germanic legend rather than anything decorative; Alberich is the dwarf-king of the Nibelung stories. Norman French turned it into Auberi, which English took as Aubrey.
How the name formed
- Alberic
- Auberi
- Aubrey
- Aubrei
Related forms: Alberich · Auberi · Aubrey · Aubree
Pronouncing Aubrei
AW-bree
Two syllables, stress firmly on the first. The -ei ending is pronounced -ee here, not -ay, which is the opposite of what it does in German and Scandinavian names.
Nicknames for Aubrei
Moderate
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 201458 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2922reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- −14.3%18 in 2025, from 21
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.
Aubrei in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Alberich in German — related form
- Auberi in French — related form
- Aubrey in English — spelling variant
- Aubree in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Louisiana, Texas, Georgia.
Aubreis among us
people named Aubrei are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Aubrei
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aubrei
- #6325
- Aubrei on the 2025 chart
- #153
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aubrei went to 18 girls in 2025, but Aubrey is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 2,021, which makes it the 153rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,172 places above the chart.
- Aubrey2,003
- Aubrei18
About 1 girl in 795 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Aubrei itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Pasha test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aubrei's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Pasha climbed just as high around 1974, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Pasha's path sketches the road Aubrei is walking now.
Aubrei sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Aubrei beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aubrei in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A thousand-year-old Germanic etymology, unusual for a name spelled this way.
- Bree is a ready-made and independently popular short form.
- Distinct on paper from the very common Aubrey and Aubree.
- The -ei ending suggests an -ay sound to readers who know German or Norwegian names.
- Aubrey, Aubree, Aubry and Aubrie all share the sound, so spelling it aloud becomes routine.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aubreis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Aubrei are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aubrei?
- Aubrei is one of 2 recorded spellings. Aubrey is the more common one — 2,003 births in 2025 against 18 for Aubrei.
- How popular is the name Aubrei in 2025?
- Aubrei ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aubrei?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Aubrei — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aubrei with classmates?
- Aubrei will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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