A modern spelling variant of Aubrie, derived from the Germanic name Aubrey meaning 'elf ruler.'
Aubriee is a 21st-century phonetic respelling of Aubrey or Aubrie, a name whose roots reach deep into medieval Germanic Europe. The original form, Alberic, was an Old High German compound of "alb" (elf, supernatural being) and "ric" (ruler, power), yielding roughly "elf-ruler" or "ruler of the supernatural realm." The Normans carried it to England after 1066 as Auberi or Aubrey, and it quickly took root in the English aristocracy — Aubrey de Vere, the first Earl of Oxford, bearing the name in the 12th century.
For most of English literary history Aubrey was predominantly masculine, most famously associated with John Aubrey (1626–1697), the English antiquary whose "Brief Lives" offered irreverent biographical sketches of figures like Shakespeare, Bacon, and Hobbes. The name also appears in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and in various Victorian novels. Its crossover to feminine use accelerated in the 20th century, aided by the 1973 Bread song "Aubrey" and later by the singer Aubrey O'Day and celebrity associations that solidified it as a girls' name in American culture.
The creative respelling Aubriee doubles the final "e" to visually underscore the long "ee" sound and signal a distinctly personalized, contemporary femininity. This practice of expressive respelling — common particularly in American naming culture since the 1990s — transforms a name with a thousand years of history into something that feels both rooted and freshly coined, a balance many modern parents seek.