A modern spelling of Aubrey, from Norman-French forms of a Germanic name meaning “elf-counsel” or noble power.
Aubrii is a creative spelling of Aubrey, one of the more historically layered names in the English canon. Its origins lie in the Old High German Alberich, compounded from alb (elf, supernatural being) and ric (power, ruler), making its literal meaning something like 'ruler of the supernatural realm.' The name crossed into Old French as Auberi and arrived in England with the Norman Conquest of 1066, where it was carried by nobles and ecclesiastics alike.
Alberich himself appears in Germanic mythology as the dwarf king who guards the cursed Nibelung gold — a figure of ancient, hidden power. For most of its history, Aubrey was a masculine name. It was borne by the medieval English antiquarian John Aubrey, whose Brief Lives sketched irreverent portraits of seventeenth-century luminaries, and by the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, whose sinuous Art Nouveau drawings defined an era's aesthetic sensibility.
The shift toward feminine usage accelerated dramatically in the late twentieth century, and by the 2000s Aubrey had become firmly cross-gender, with the feminine spelling predominating in American birth records. Aubrii, with its doubled terminal 'i,' belongs to a contemporary spelling tradition that feminizes and personalizes names visually. The double-i ending gives the name a soft, open feel on the page and signals a name that is emphatically its bearer's own. It is a name that has traveled from Germanic forests to Norman castles to modern nurseries, shedding old-world sternness with each generation and arriving, in this form, as something bright and light.