Aubrey (song)
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Etymology
From the French names Aubrey, Aubrée and Aubry; derived ultimately from the Germanic name Alberic, alb "elf" + ric "power".
Proper noun
- An English patronymic surname.
- from the same source, or transferred from the surname.
- 1595, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3, Act III,Scene III:
- Call him my king, by whose injurious doom / My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere, / Was done to death?
- 1595, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3, Act III,Scene III:
- of American usage since the 1970s.