Audrey's Name Day

23rd June

Audrey, the name has a description or meaning which is from Old English, 'noble strength'

Audrey has a Name day of 23rd June, please check our history page to find out how this was derived

This description represents the Female usage of the name.

This name is a truly ancient name from which numerous variations have been derived as shown below (the M or F in brackets are Male or Female orientated names)

There is also an alternative celebration date of 17th October for this Name day and represents different religious interpretations or different festival days for Saints

St Audrey is a patron saint of the following:

Symbols are often associated with Saints, it often helped in the middle ages when people were unable to read thus Audrey has the following symbols associated

Historically Famous Audreys

The word 'tawdry' developed as a name for the sort of gaudy rubbish sold at the great St Audrey's Fair at Ely, Cambridgeshire, on her feast day, and Shakespeare uses 'Audrey' as the name of his irrepressibly lumpen country wench in As You Like It. The original Audrey, however, was the beautiful and determined princess Etheldreda; she seems to have lived up to her name. She was born in a village outside Newmarket in about 630 and took a vow of celibacy which she upheld, even when - for reasons of state - she was twice married. The Bishop, St Wilfrid, supported her resolution, and she. eventually founded the Abbey of Ely, one of the great double monasteries of the period, in 672. It was famous for its austerity and prayer under her rule, which lasted until 679, when she died of a tumour on her neck.