I like it a lot, but I really can’t see it aging well on a girl past 24.
Yes, sorry, I feel the same way completely. I can see a boy of any age with the name [name]Aubrey[/name], but I can’t really imagine it on a girl of any age, even though I’ve known several. I do know an awesome college student whose name is [name]Aubrea[/name], and she’s fabulous, and manages to pull it off oh-so-well despite my wonky view of unisex names on girls, but I can’t really imagine a mom named [name]Aubrey[/name], and especially not a grandmother…
I can see [name]Aubrey[/name] aging well… on a male. For a female, not so much.
[name]Aubrea[/name]? That’s beautiful. I could support that more than [name]Aubrey[/name].
[name]Aubria[/name] might be more preferrable to me though.
[name]One[/name] of my closest gf’s is named [name]Aubrey[/name] and we’re 26. So I think ages just fine.
I love [name]Aubrey[/name] but I worry about the same thing. I just wonder if it would lead to a very immature adult…
Yeah, much as I’m not a fan of funky, trendy spellings, [name]Aubrea[/name] makes it look girlier. [name]Just[/name] fyi, though… she says it just like [name]Aubrey[/name]–it’s just spelled differently…
Oh…Well that is totally different. I’d say it Aubre-ah
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I think it is fine. I know a 30-35 year old [name]Aubrey[/name] and she wears it well. I think it just seems that way because there are so many little Aubreys running around that it seems like a little girl name. When they all grow up I think it will seem much more acceptable to have an older [name]Aubrey[/name].
It’s the new [name]Ashley[/name], imo. Ahaha.
From an Aussie point of view there is no way that anyone I have ever heard of who would ever consider naming their baby [name]Aubrey[/name], maybe it is an American name. We Aussies would never use [name]Sydney[/name]/[name]Sidney[/name] either for a girl and it is still considered an old man’s name here, yet we have the wonderful [name]Sydney[/name] Harbour!
What farminmomma said. I know an [name]Aubrey[/name] in her 30s, she is a very elegant and mature and sophisticated professional, and the name has always gotten lots of compliments (although slowly it’s starting to get more "oh that’s my niece’s name"etc now). I do think since it was relatively rare when people in their 30s and older were born and has skyrocketed it’s easy to imagine on little girls if you don’t know anyone older with the name, but there’s nothing inherently youthful only to the name, to me. The -ee ending a little, maybe, but it’s more in the [name]Naomi[/name] vain to me than the [name]Kylee[/name] or [name]Kaylee[/name] range. If you can see [name]Audrey[/name] on an adult, [name]Aubrey[/name] is only one sound off.
Because I know my friend, I can see it on anybody.
If you go through the SSA data, it’s been used for girls since the 1900s, and overtook boys quite a while ago in the 20th century, after a period of being used pretty equally by both. Bemoan the takeover if you like, but it itself is actually not that new, just the explosion of the name.
rollo - that is interesting! Here in the US you slowly get the sense of names used elsewhere in the Anglosphere, not here, but rarely the opposite. So I had no idea about [name]Aubrey[/name] not appearing in Australia. I also hadn’t heard about [name]Sydney[/name], although I probably would have predicted : D.
For me, it’s not that [name]Aubrey[/name] won’t age well, it’s that there are so many names that age better. [name]Audrey[/name] for a start.
Like others, I prefer [name]Aubrey[/name] for a boy
I like [name]Aubria[/name] though, pronounced with 3 syllables (the -ia = -ya thing is just wrong to my ears with all -ia names).
[name]Aubria[/name] is actually a genus of frogs found in [name]West[/name]-[name]Africa[/name] (I’m a googler). They’re not pretty frogs, but it’s a legit nature name, not just a creative spelling (even though most people would see it as that). ^^
My sister is [name]Aubrey[/name]. She is 26, a scientist, really quiet and softly pretty. I think it fits her well, we call her [name]Bree[/name] sometimes.