Aubry
Feminine · “elf ruler”
Aubry is given to both — 3,020 girls and 1,611 boys since 1880. See Aubry as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Aubry is a shortened spelling of Aubrey, and Aubrey is the same name as Oberon. The Germanic original passed into French, softened, and came to England with the Normans; a separate branch of it stayed in German legend as the dwarf-king of the Nibelung stories, and a French romance turned that figure into the king of the fairies whom Shakespeare later borrowed.
How old is the name Aubry?
Aubry first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Aubry alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 3,000 people named Aubry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Aubry most popular?
Aubry peaked in 2008, reaching #1354 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 7,008 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Germanic compound of elf and ruler to Aubry
The story of Aubry
The Germanic name belonged to a dwarf king who guards a hoard, and the French poets who retold those stories turned him into something lighter and more courtly: a small king of the otherworld, powerful and capricious, who appears in a thirteenth-century romance and eventually in an English play about a wood outside Athens. The same name, arriving in England by the ordinary route as a personal name rather than a character, became Aubrey. The two forms have been separate for eight hundred years and nobody notices they are the same word. The English Aubrey worth knowing wrote things down: a seventeenth-century antiquary who collected short biographical sketches of everyone he could get information about, gossip included, and whose notes are the only source for a great many facts about people otherwise lost, including most of what is said about Shakespeare's habits.
Meaning
elf ruler
Two Germanic elements: one naming the elves, who were real supernatural beings in that culture rather than decorations, and one meaning power or rule. The combination is well attested and the reading is not disputed. What is easy to miss is that the elf element was ordinary in Germanic naming and appears in a dozen other names, which means the first half of this name is no stranger than the second.
How the name formed
- A Germanic compound of elf and ruler
- Alberich in German legend, Auberon in French romance
- Aubrey in England after the conquest
- Aubry and Aubree as American spellings for daughters
Related forms: Aubry · Alberich · Aubrey
Pronouncing Aubry
AW-bree
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical to Aubrey in speech. The missing e is silent in both spellings, so the difference is entirely visual, and French says the same letters with the stress at the back instead.
Nicknames for Aubry
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
- 1923
- Most girls named
- 2008179 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1354reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −20.0%12 in 2025, from 15
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.
Aubry in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Aubry in French — same name
- Alberich in German — related form
- Aubrey in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Georgia.
Aubrys among us
people named Aubry are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Aubry
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Aubry
- #8362
- Aubry on the 2025 chart
- #880
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Aubry went to 12 girls in 2025, but Aubri and Aubrii are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 80, which makes it the 880th most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,482 places above the chart.
- Aubri63
- Aubry12
- Aubrii5
About 1 girl in 20,091 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 133,939 for Aubry 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 Laine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Aubry's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Laine climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Laine's path sketches the road Aubry is walking now.
Aubry 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
Aubry beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Aubry in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The sound is completely familiar while the spelling is not, which is a comfortable combination.
- It works on the register for either child, and has done so throughout its history.
- It carries a genuine Germanic meaning and an unusually good literary trail behind it.
- Aubrey is the standard spelling and this one will be converted into it on most paperwork.
- The name crossed from boys to girls within living memory, so older people will read it differently.
- There are at least four spellings in current use and none of them is dominant.
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Frequently asked
- How many Aubrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,000 people named Aubry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Aubry?
- Aubry is one of 3 recorded spellings. Aubri is the more common one — 63 births in 2025 against 12 for Aubry.
- How popular is the name Aubry in 2025?
- Aubry ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Aubry?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Aubry — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Aubry with classmates?
- Aubry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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