Audley

Where Audley comes from

Audley hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1869
    Audley Miller born
    Cricket player of England.
  2. 1891
    First appearance
    #963 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1894
    Peak, #594
    12 babies named Audley — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1971
    Audley Harrison born
    British boxer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Audley Harrison · British boxer, born 1971
  • Audley Miller · Cricket player of England., 1869–1959
  • Audley Shaw · Jamaican politician, born 1952
  • Audley Dean Nicols · American painter, 1875–1941

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.