Aubrie
- Pronunciation
- [Au-brie]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Rules With Elf-Wisdom.
- Origin
- French
About the Name Aubrie
Aubrie belongs to the Aubrey family of names, which traces to the Old French Auberi — itself from the Germanic Alberich, composed of alb (elf) and ric (power, ruler), yielding the meaning of ruling with elf-wisdom. In medieval Germanic and Norse tradition, elves were beings of supernatural intelligence and foresight, so this etymology carries connotations of otherworldly cleverness rather than mere whimsy. Aubrie is a feminine respelling that sits alongside Aubree and Aubry within the broader Aubrey family, sharing the same etymology without any independent ancient derivation of its own.
In SSA data, Aubrie first entered the female top-1000 in 2001 and peaked at #325 in 2012, accumulating 11,975 top-1000 births over its tracked span. Its peak year aligned with the broader Aubrey-family surge of the early 2010s, when multiple spellings competed simultaneously on the girls' chart. The name then softened through the latter part of the decade: #750 with 362 births in 2020, #793 with 356 births in 2021, and #891 with 312 births in 2022, the last year it appeared in the tracked top-1000.
Recorded variants are Aubree and Aubry. Among the Aubrey-family spellings, Aubrie occupies a middle position — more elaborate than the compressed Aubry, slightly less common than the dominant Aubree — giving it a measure of individuality within a recognizable naming tradition. Its soft, open vowel endings make it a name that feels both feminine and grounded in genuine linguistic history stretching back to the Germanic world.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Aubrie
US Popularity History (2001–2022)
Annual US births named Aubrie by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2012 with 965 girls named Aubrie (girl rank #325 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2022, ranked #891 for girls (312 US births). That's 566 places below its 2012 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Aubrie Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Aubrie the strongest states are West Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Virginia | #274 | 25 |
| 2 | Louisiana | #348 | 146 |
| 3 | Mississippi | #407 | 56 |
| 4 | Iowa | #413 | 26 |
| 5 | Alabama | #437 | 113 |
| 6 | Connecticut | #439 | 20 |
| 7 | Kentucky | #447 | 40 |
| 8 | Arkansas | #473 | 26 |
| 9 | South Carolina | #513 | 46 |
| 10 | Wisconsin | #539 | 75 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | #986 | 214 |
| 2 | Texas | #870 | 336 |
| 3 | New York | #828 | 77 |
| 4 | Colorado | #817 | 35 |
| 5 | Arizona | #808 | 54 |
| 6 | New Jersey | #790 | 28 |
| 7 | Florida | #765 | 177 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | #720 | 145 |
| 9 | Massachusetts | #704 | 37 |
| 10 | Indiana | #686 | 56 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Aubrie in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Aubrie to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Aubrie against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).