Opinion

[kayleighd]

Hi all,

We are soon to welcome our baby girl and are both pretty fixed on the name Aubree. However my in-laws hate it and say it's a mans name. I am aware that it was popular in the 1920s or earlier for a man being spelt Aubrey but I feel that it sounds feminine and with our spelling adds to that. Plus Shirley and Beverley were once men's names!

I am generally a people pleaser and now am casting doubt on my choice, what are your thoughts on the name pls?

I know a woman in her fifties whose name is Angee. She is embarrassed about the spelling of her name. Her parents thought it was cute and different for a little girl too - but now as a professional woman every time she meets a new client she has to say “no, I’m afraid it’s double E” with a resigned air. She really hates the juvenile spelling of her name.

Call her Audrey.

Or Brianna.

I think it sounds lovely! People will always always have an opinion, no one can love the same name, but if you love it that is the most important thing!

Not everyone can love the same name* I meant to say sorry

Yeh I can totally imagine that scenario @VenusClapTrap I’m all for naming babies what the parents want but to deliberately spell the name wrong just feels really cruel- I do think everyone will see the spelling and assume “chav” (I’m really sorry for using the C word but you’ve asked for opinions so I thought I’d be honest)

I would just assume the parents were thick and couldn’t spell - again I’m sorry

It's awful OP and you will all be correcting the spelling for her entire life. Don't underestimate how annoying that will be.

Apologies but I too would assume that the parents were not very bright and couldn't spell. Audrey is a nice name for a girl; Aubrey is definitely a boy's name though.

Terrible. I’m not surprised your in-laws have that view. Obviously it’s your choice but it looks made up to me.

I don't like it as I just always think it's someone saying Audrey wrong. Sorry

@didslediddle

Aubree is NOT low rent American

The name is lovely

Boy’s name spelled incorrectly. Sorry.
Are you remembering that your daughter will hopefully and almost certainly spend most of her life being an adult over 30?
The younique spelling is likely to be a total pain as she will constantly be spelling it out and correcting people and forms. I have this and my name isn’t even a younique spelling, it’s a name with two legitimate ways of being written and it’s spawned a few “trendy” (30 years ago) versions, so I have to carefully spell it out EVERY time.
You have asked this question on an anonymous forum so you will get much more honest opinions than in real life.
If a friend told me they were going to call their baby Aubree I’d say it was lovely. Actually I’d bracket it with Brandi, Chelsey, Leesa and the like.
If you love it and go with it, people will get used to it and people won’t tell you to your face or tell her to hers that they think it’s crap. So there’s that.

Her parents thought it was cute and different for a little girl too - but now as a professional woman every time she meets a new client she has to say “no, I’m afraid it’s double E” with a resigned air. She really hates the juvenile spelling of her name.

Exactly - cute is just wrong. Has she considered getting it changed legally?

She says she considered it years ago, but never quite got round to it.

Aubree is very marmite (personally it's a no from me.)

Audrey, on the other hand, is lovely.

Just use Audrey or Aurelia or Aurora - not that I like those last two- but they are a lot better than Aubree.

I have a DD about to turn 2 called Aubrey, I love it, I don't regret it at all.

Calling her Aubrey would be better than Aubree. At least then you're just using a traditionally male name for a girl, rather than making a naff youneek spelling.

I know a girl Aubrey.
I don't love the name but I'd spell it correctly. Aubree is pretty horrific.

I know one who spells it Aubrie. I think that looks better than the double e spelling.

I think Aubrey is much more common these days as a girls name. It’s very feminine and much nicer for girls anyway. I prefer this spelling

Aubree is either horrendously chavvy or horrendously low rent American. Sorry, but someone had to say it!
I agree. Sorry!
Also had no idea it’s Drake’s real name 😮

Aubrey is a girls name to me..

It's dreadful with the double E

Venus why didn't your friend just change the spelling? Very easy to do

That spelling is hideous. Audrey and Aubrey are both fine.

Codename I don’t know. Busy life I guess. Always something more pressing to be doing and then the years have gone by.