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Draxler vs Draya

American parents have registered 939 Drayas since 1880, against 107 Draxlers. Draya is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Draxler against Draya, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Draxler Draya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Draya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1998 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Draxler had 14 and Draya had 48.

Side by side

  Draxler Draya
Total US births 107939
Most in one year 18106
Babies in 2025 534
Estimated living today 110930
Median age today 58
Peak year 20172017
Best rank 5,111th boys1,902nd girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th4,172nd
First recorded 20171998
Girls / boys 0 / 107939 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Drayas alive today are over 8; half the Draxlers are over 5. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Draxler and Draya.