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Dream vs Dreux

American parents have registered 8,327 Dreams since 1880, against 398 Dreuxes. Dream is still ahead, with 780 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dream against Dreux, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dream Dreux

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

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Dream for 32 years and Dreux for 11 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dream Dreux
Total US births 8,327398
Most in one year 1,03252
Babies in 2025 78052
Estimated living today 8,300380
Median age today 44
Peak year 20222021
Best rank 335th girls3,242nd boys
Rank in 2025 432nd3,757th
First recorded 19701956
Girls / boys 7,771 / 55680 / 318

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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