Aud

Boys' name

Riches

Aud has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Aud, 1921

1 in 259,000

Aud over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aud: meaning, origin, and history

Riches

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aud means

Aud means “riches”, associated with auðr.

Origin, language, and formation

Aud is used in Norwegian.

Aud comes through Old Norse Auðr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Oda and Eda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14 boys were recorded with the name Aud between 1919 and 1921. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1921; its best national rank was #2,995 in 1921.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aud?

Aud had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1921, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1921: 1 in 259,000; 9 of 2,334,460 births
Among boys only: 1 in 122,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1921: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 179,793 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Aud sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1921 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 179,793 children born in 1921 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Auds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aud was born before 1921 — so the typical Aud is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 64.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (9).

Is Aud rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1921 (9)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #2,995; 1921

Aud around the world

Where Aud ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Norway
1880–2025
#424
in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Aud by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,995; 1921
Peak year: 1921; 9 that year
First recorded: 1919
Last recorded: 1921
All-time count: 14
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Aud

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Audis Audey Audyn Audi Audin Audrik Audio Audun Audre Audvik Maud Audemar Auddie Audon Audren Audrie Arnaud Geraud Daud Amaud Audy Audeliz Audelio Audriel

Sibling names for Aud

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Elvera Rubie Tressie Lavinia Myrtis Margarette Idella Dortha

For a brother

Hardy Harmon Burl Dewitt Patsy Milford Odis Warner

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