Aubrey — #130 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Aubrey

The Social Security Administration has registered 131,479 babies named Aubrey between 1889 and 2024, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Aubrey currently holds the #130 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 8,059 babies received it in a single year. Aubrey is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 31,019 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aubrey performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 65,918 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Aubrey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12,839 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Aubrey in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aubrey in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 131,479 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.