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Dream vs Drevon

American parents have registered 8,327 Dreams since 1880, against 761 Drevons. Dream is still ahead, with 780 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dream Drevon

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 38 years in which either name was published, Dream for 25 years and Drevon for 13 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dream Drevon
Total US births 8,327761
Most in one year 1,03248
Babies in 2025 7808
Estimated living today 8,300750
Median age today 421
Peak year 20222000
Best rank 335th girls2,087th boys
Rank in 2025 432nd8,910th
First recorded 19701989
Girls / boys 7,771 / 5560 / 761

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 Drevons alive today are over 21; half the Dreams are over 4. That is 17 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: Dream and Drevon.