Audre is a variant of Audrey — Old English æðel (noble) + þryð (strength). Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was the American Black lesbian feminist poet, essayist, and civil rights activist who described herself as "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet." Her essay The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (1984) became to intersectional feminism. State Poet of New York (1991-1992).
Audre does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Audre reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.