Audrey (first name)

Audrey is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

Audrey is an Anglo-Norman given name of Anglo-Saxon descent.

Audrey is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Æðel (noble) and rēd (council) as a male first name. Æðelrǣd , Æthelred has evolved phonetically in Middle English to Aldred , Eldred .

Audrey is also derived from the Anglo-Saxon Æðel (noble) and þruð (force), as in Gertrude as a female given name. He is related to the German first names Adeltraud, Adeltrud, Edeltraud and Edeltrud.

The phonetic development of Aldred to Audrey is typical of the Anglo-Norman language, a langue d'oïl that is closely related to Old French .

name day

Name day is June 23 .

variants

• Audry

Name bearers

• Saint Audrey (~ 636–679), an Anglo-Saxon saint
• Audrey Arno (1942–2012), German pop singer
• Audrey Bitoni (* 1986), American porn actress
• Audrey Brown (1913-2005), British athlete
• Audrey Emery (1904–1971), US millionaire heiress
• Audrey Erskine-Lindop (1920–1986), British author
• Audrey Flack (* 1931), American artist
• Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), British-Dutch actress
• Audrey Hollander (* 1979), American porn actress
• Audrey Jones Beck (1924–2003), American art collector and patron
• Audrey Landers (born 1956), American actress
• Audrey Lawson-Johnston (1915–2011), American survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania
• Audrey Meadows (1922–1996), American actress
• Audrey Mestre-Ferreras (1974–2002), French athlete
• Audrey Munson (1891–1996), American model and actress
• Audrey Niffenegger (* 1963), American writer
• Audrey Patterson (1926–1996), American athlete
• Audrey Richards (1899-1984), British ethnologist
• Audrey Tang (* 1981), Taiwanese software programmer
• Audrey Tautou (born 1976), French actress
• Audrey Thomas (* 1935), Canadian writer
• Audrey Wells (1960–2018), American screenwriter and film director
• Audrey Whitby (born 1996), American actress
• Audrey Williamson (1926-2010), British athlete

fiction

• Audrey Roberts , a character from the British series Coronation Street
• Audrey Raines , a character from series 24
• Audrey II , a plant in The Little Shop of Horror (1986)
• Audrey Fulquard , heroine of the musical The Little Horror Shop