French and English: habitational name from any of the places in
France named Autrey or Autry.
French: from the Old French
personal name Audry, from Germanic Aldric ‘ancient
power’. There are also places in Allier, Ardennes, and Loiret (at
least) bearing this name; it could be a habitational name from any of
them.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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