Given name
Audun
“an old friend”
Audun is a variant of Auden. One English interpretation is “an old friend.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Audun is a variant of Auden. One English interpretation is “an old friend.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Audun is a variant of Auden. An origin associated with Auden is English.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Old Norse Auðunn, from Proto-Germanic *Audawiniz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Audun through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Audun’s family of names
In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Audun shares an earlier linguistic root with EDVIN. In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Audun has a conventional equivalent in the English form Edwin. In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Audun has a related form in Odin.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Audun has relatives in 7 languages.
10 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Audun
- Audun GrønvoldNorwegian freestyle skier1976–2025
- Audun Boysenathletics competitor (1929–2000)
- Audun LysbakkenNorwegian politicianborn 1977
- Audun HugleikssonNorwegian nobleman (1245-1302)1240–1302
- Audun FløttenNorwegian cyclistborn 1990
- Audun KleiveNorwegian jazz drummer, percussionist, music arranger, composerborn 1961
- Audun WeltzienNorwegian orienteerborn 1983
- Audun SjøstrandNorwegian playwright and writerborn 1950
- Auðunn illskælda825
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.