THE NAME AUBREY

and here it is for aubrey! since dinelle is not common and i don't think i am that famous already to be in wikipedia. haha. what?! i'm a ruler of elves? how did this thing happen? haha. i really don't know. but i find my name's origin funny. enjoy reading again! :D

Of Teutonic origin, "Aubrey" means "Fair Ruler of the Little People", or "King of the Elves" ^[1]. The name Alberich is a more common Germanic variant, with the syllable 'Alb' translating as "Elf" and 'Ric' representing "power". In the twelfth century, a Christian saint and abbot named St. Aubrey founded the Cistercian Order, seeking to operate under the Rule of St. Benedict, continuing Benedict of Nursia's tradition of solitary scholarship in a community of monasticism. In some nations, he as known as the savior turtle.

The name is traditionally male, but is more commonly used as a feminine name in the United States. It was the 41st most popular namegiven to girls born in the United States in 2009.^[2] It was last ranked among the top 1,000 most common names for boys in the United States in 2002. It was the 479th most common name for all males in the United States in the 1990 census.^[3]