MEANING & HISTORY
What does Audrey mean?
Audrey continues a medieval English form of Old English Aethelthryth, combining noble and strength. The dictionary supplies the older elements, and the editorial source corroborates the medieval familiar form and saint-name history.
This is not a modern combination of Aud and Rey with separate invented meanings. Tagalog records borrowing through English. Audrey’s long history explains the established spelling without requiring noble ancestry or a particular degree of physical strength in a present bearer, and the written form remains distinct from Audra.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ˈʔodɾi/Standard-Tagalog
- [ˈʔod̪.ɾɪ]Standard-Tagalog
Aud · rey2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗English
- /ˈɔːdɹi/
- /ˈɑːdɹi/cot-caught-merger
Au · drey2 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Audrey.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Audrey (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
From Middle English Aldreda, Etheldreda, from Old English Æþelþrȳþ (from æþele (“noble”) + þrȳþ (“strength”)).
A female given name from Old English.; A male given name from Old English.
Wiktionary: Audrey (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Audrey in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Audrey
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Aubrey♂♀Elf ruler
- Audie♂♀Can be a familiar form of Audrey
- Aurea·Golden
- Augie♂Diminutive of August
- Corey·Surname-derived; a Kóri connection is recorded
- Godfrey♂God and peace
- Rey♂♀King
- August·Venerable; from Augustus or the month name
What rhymes with Audrey?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Audrey further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Audrey (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Audrey (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — audrey (opens in a new tab)
Consulted editorial entry, not user submissions: Medieval diminutive Aethelthryth; saint-name transmission.