Aubrey

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Aubrey: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Aubrey: Recorded since 1966, its highest recorded position is #189, and it stood at #207 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
75times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#189highest recorded position
16groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Aubrey's record

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list — an observation about those lists, not about the name. Names published across category lists

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#5201
2008	#3005
2009	#3422
2010	#3156
2011	#2275
2012	#1253
2013	#959
2014	#652
2015	#539
2016	#382
2017	#267
2018	#279
2019	#223
2020	#238
2021	#214
2022	#239
2023	#189
2024	#207

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 11 of the 44 years from 1980 to 2023.

In 2024: #207 among girls in England and Wales, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1966–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1966
First recorded at #256 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1966 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded2007–2024
Highest recorded position: #189 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 2007–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #207 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Aubrey appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 745 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1966.

Aubrey across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Aubrey's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#542 (1980)	#365 (2017)	#445 (2023)	11 of 44	67 (1980–2023)	11 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#569 (2021)	#711 (2024)	29 of 29	745 (1996–2024)	67 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#256 (1966)	#256 (1966)	#298 (1992)	12 of 27	42 (1966–1992)	4 (1973)
England and Wales · Girls	#5201 (2007)	#189 (2023)	#207 (2024)	18 of 18	2,059 (2007–2024)	267 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#407 (2024)	#407 (2024)	3 of 8	9 (2017–2024)	3 (2017)

Aubrey by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Aubrey in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	27	4 of 10	7
2000s	91	10 of 10	9
2010s	351	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	276	5 of 10	55

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 55 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Aubrey appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1966 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #189 in England and Wales in 2023.

Aubrey's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#207	233	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#711	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#189	267	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#665	53	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#239	197	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#626	57	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#214	231	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#569	67	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#238	196	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#690	49	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#223	223	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#723	46	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#279	170	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#749	44	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#267	184	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#818	39	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#382	119	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#712	48	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#539	80	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#779	41	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#652	61	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#866	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#959	38	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#850	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1253	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1209	21	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3156	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1425	16	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1242	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1756	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1716	10	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1578	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#365	11	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#298	4	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#323	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#542	3	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#292	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#333	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#291	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#256	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1966 and 2024, ranked in 42 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #189, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 267 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

2 registrars publish it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 58 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ieva · #190, 45y
Klaudia · #187, 42y
Blaine · #186, 38y
Evelina · #194, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Antonia · #189, 58y
Cecelia · #189, 44y
Gerardine · #189, 17y
Rosanna · #189, 60y

Aubrey was ranked #189 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Aubrey and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Aubrey without appearing here.

Aubrey moved ahead of

Kai Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3422 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #5707.
Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3422 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #3156 and #5707.
Dianne Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5201 and #4294 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3005 and #5545.
Josefine Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5201 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #3005 and #5545.

Moved ahead of Aubrey

Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #3467 and #1092.
Cooper Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1664 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #1425.
Kasper Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1664 and #2425 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #1889.
Arlo Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1664 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #3036 and #2142.

Moved the opposite way to Aubrey

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 while Alexander went from #14 to #36.

Moved the same way as Aubrey

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Aubrey went from #1765 to #711 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1966 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #189 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Aubrey

Aubrey at a glance

What stands out in Aubrey's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Aubrey across 5 official records

Aubrey by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Aubrey appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Aubrey

Aubrey and the names beside it

Aubrey moved ahead of

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Aubrey at a glance

What stands out in Aubrey's record

Aubrey across 5 official records

Aubrey by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Aubrey appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Aubrey

Aubrey and the names beside it

Aubrey moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Aubrey

Moved the opposite way to Aubrey

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