Audy — boys' name
290 babies named Audy in U.S. Social Security records since 1894, with the highest year being 1960. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Audy was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Audy in 1960 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Audy
The Social Security Administration has registered 290 babies named Audy between 1894 and 2019, spanning 126 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Audy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Audy performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 59 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Audy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Audy in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Audy 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 290 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.
Audy at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Audy popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1894
- Peak year (1960)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 126 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
290 total births across 126 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1960 with 15 births in a single year.
Audy popularity over time — girls
12 total births recorded since 1915 (Audy as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Audy accounts for 4% of total recorded use across both genders.
Audy by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 59 births that decade — 20% of Audy's all-time total
Audy decade highlights
- Peak decade 59 births
- Runner-up 58 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Audy's strongest decade
59 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
Audy by state
Where Audy concentrates geographically — total births since 1894
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Arkansas | | 6 | 2.1% |
6 of 290 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Arkansas 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Arkansas accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1894–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.