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Character Name

Audrey

Meaning — Audrey is an English feminine name, the Anglo-Norman form of the Old English Æthelþryð, composed of æthel meaning "noble" and þryð meaning "strength" — thus "noble strength." It was the name of Saint Audrey (Saint Æthelthryth), the seventh-century Abbess of Ely, whose legend linked cheap lace sold at her feast-day fair to the word "tawdry" — though the name itself retains its original nobility.·English origin·Female·AW-dree

Audrey Audrey combines Old English noble strength with twentieth-century elegance through Hepburn's iconic cultural presence. Characters named Audrey are often portrayed as women of effortless grace and deeper reserves of strength than their delicate appearance suggests — the "noble strength" of the etymology quietly but unmistakably present.

Best genres for Audrey

Contemporary FictionLiterary FictionHistorical FictionRomance

Famous characters named Audrey

Holly Golightly

Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote

While Holly Golightly is Capote's character, the role's immortalization by Audrey Hepburn made "Audrey" culturally inseparable from Holly's particular mix of vulnerability and sophistication.


Variations & nicknames

AudreyAudraAudrieEtheldreda

Pairs well with

Audrey HarringtonAudrey WyndhamAudrey AshfordAudrey PembertonAudrey WhitmoreAudrey Thornton

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