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 foundational to intersectional feminism. State Poet of New York (1991-1992). Author of Sister Outsider, The Cancer Journals, and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name*.
Subject of the 2012 documentary Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years.
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.