Aubrey
| Gender | Unisex |
|---|---|
| Language(s) | French |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | leader of elves |
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | Aubree, Aubrie, Awbery[1] |
Aubrey is an English given name. The name is a Norman French derivation of the Germanic given name Alberic, which consists of the elements alf "elf" and ric "power".[2] Before the Norman conquest, the Anglo-Saxons used the corresponding variant Ælf-rīc (see Ælfric).
An early female form is recorded as Aubrée and does not share the same etymology. It is instead derived from the Germanic Albereda or Alberada. It can be found in certain genealogies of the noble Norman families (See for example Aubrey of Buonalbergo).
The name is traditionally male, but is now more commonly used as a feminine name in the United States. It was the 20th most popular name given to girls born in the United States in 2014.[3] The variants Aubree and Aubrie were the 61st most and 428th most popular given names for girls respectively. It was last ranked among the top 1,000 most common names for boys in the United States in 2002. It was the 479th most common name for all males in the United States in the 1990 census.[4]
People
Surname
- Andrew Aubrey, Lord Mayor of London in 1339, 1340, and 1351
- Emlyn Aubrey (born 1964), US professional golfer
- James Thomas Aubrey, Jr. (1918–1994), US television and film executive; president of the CBS television network during the early 1960s
- Various persons named John Aubrey
- Juliet Aubrey (born 1966), English actress
- Sam Aubrey (1922–2008), former basketball player and coach of Oklahoma State University
- William Aubrey (died 1595), Welsh lawyer, judge and MP
- William Aubrey (engineer) (1759-1827), Welsh engineer
Given name
Pre-nineteenth century
- Aubrey de Coucy, Earl of Northumbria from 1080 to about 1086
- Aubrey de Troisfontaines (died c. 1250), French chronicler of the 13th century
- Aubrey de Vere I (died c. 1110), 11th-century Anglo-Norman knight
- Aubrey de Vere II (c. 1080–1141), 12th-century Lord Great Chamberlain of England
- Aubrey de Vere III (c. 1115–94), first Earl of Oxford
- Aubrey de Vere IV (c. 1170–1214), second Earl of Oxford
- Aubrey de Vere, 10th Earl of Oxford (c. 1338–1400)
- Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (1627–1703), Royalist during the Civil War
- Aubrey of Buonalbergo (c. 1030–1122), first wife of Robert Guiscard
Nineteenth century
- Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English artist, illustrator, and author
- Aubrey de Vere Hunt (1761–1818), Irish politician, landowner and businessman
- Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet (1788–1846), Irish baronet
- Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902), Irish poet
Modern era
- Aubrey Ankrum (born 1972), American screenwriter, animator and actor
- Aubrey David (born 1990), Guyanese-Trinidadian international footballer
- Aubrey Dawkins (born 1995), American basketball player
- Aubrey Dollar (born 1980), American actress
- Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban (1915–2002), birth name of Israeli diplomat Abba Eban
- Aubrey Fitch (1883–1978), American admiral
- Aubrey de Grey (born 1963), English gerontologist
- Aubrey Drake Graham (born 1986), birth name of Canadian musician, actor, and entrepreneur Drake
- Aubrey Haynie (born 1974), American bluegrass musician
- Aubrey Herbert (1880–1923), British colonel, diplomat and
- Aubrey Lyles (1883–1932), African-American performer and lyricist with FE Miller as "Miller and Lyles"
- Aubrey Joseph (born 1997), American rapper and actor
- Aubrey Manning (1930–2018), English zoologist and broadcaster
- Aubrey McClendon (1959–2016) American businessman, oil and natural gas pioneer
- Aubrey Morris (1926–2015), English actor
- Aubrey Newman (1904–1994), American general
- Aubrey Newman (historian) (born 1927) British historian
- Aubrey O'Day (born 1984), American singer
- Aubrey Peeples (born 1993), American actress and singer
- Aubrey Plaza (born 1984), American actress
- Aubrey Powell (disambiguation), several people
- Aubrey Simons (1921–2014), English table tennis player
- C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948), English stage and film actor
- Aubrey Strahan (1852–1928), British geologist
- Aubrey Williams (1926–1990), Guyanese painter
- Aubrey Woods (1928–2013), British actor
Fictional characters
- Jack Aubrey, one of the protagonists from Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series
- Aubrey Valentine, in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders
- Aubrey, the principal character of the 1980 eponymous ITV cartoon series Aubrey
- Aubrey, a main vampire in the novel Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
- Aubrey James, the antagonist of Stroker Ace, a 1983 action comedy film
- Aubrey, the narrator and main character of The Vampyre by John Polidori
- Aubrey Posen, one of the main characters in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect
- Aubrey Aubergine, one of the Munch Bunch
- Aubrey Flemming, protagonist of the 2007 psychological thriller "I Know Who Killed Me", portrayed by Lindsey Lohan
- Aubrey deLint, a character from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
- Aubrey Little, a character played by Travis McElroy in The Adventure Zone
- Aubrey, a song written by David Gates and originally released on the 1972 Bread album Guitar Man.
See also
Notes
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9.
- ^ "Words, words, words…". 13 March 2008. Archived from the original on 13 March 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Popularity of name". Social Security Administration.
- ^ Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Aubrey". Behind the Name.
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