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Audie

#3,585 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Possibly noble + strength, through Audrey

Audie has been given to 6,867 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #3,585 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 261 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% boys, 35% girls all-time.

Babies named Audie, 2025

1 in 107,000

Audie over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Audie over time

In 2025, Audie went to 42% girls and 58% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Audie: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly noble + strength, through Audrey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Audie means

Audie belongs to the name family reached through Audie → Audrey. Its meaning is “noble + strength”.

Origin, language, and formation

Audie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Audrey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,431 boys were recorded with the name Audie between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 261 in 1956; its best national rank was #465 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,394 in 2020 to #3,585 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,597 in 2015 to #3,585 in 2025.

In the United States, 2,436 girls were recorded with the name Audie between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 81 in 1916; its best national rank was #580 in 1905.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,681 in 2020 to #5,579 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,055 in 2015 to #5,579 in 2025.

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 Audie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,585
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Audie 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 2025 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Audie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Audies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Audie was born before 1960 — so the typical Audie is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,435
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (1,191).

Is Audie 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
−707
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,191
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+12
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.9%
Peak was 1956 (261)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#465
1956

Spellings of Audie

Audie is not the most common spelling — Eddie is, with 42.2% against Audie's 0.88%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Audie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Audie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 98,004 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
  2. 2Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 50,000
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Audie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Audie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Audie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 39,947 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 14,286
  2. 2Alabama1 in 16,667
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 16,667
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Audie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Audie around the world

Where Audie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #348
    in 1972

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Audie

People whose public names include Audie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Audie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Audie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Aude

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Audie by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,585
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,191
Best rank ever
#465
1956
Peak year
1956
261 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,431
Count in 2025
31

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 102
Best rank ever
#580
1905
Peak year
1916
81 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,436
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Audie

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

AudenJodieCodieBodieAudreyKodieOdieAudricBrodieTeddieAudryAudleyIndieWoodieAudiAudelLaddieAndieAddieBuddieAudraClaudieAudwinFredie

Names with a curve like Audie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Audie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RockRandelDelKimballVonDavyRandChristopheGilLennieLindsayLen

Sibling names for Audie

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

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