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Drema vs Dreshawn

American parents have registered 2,464 Dremas since 1880, against 736 Dreshawns. But in 2025 it was Dreshawn that was commoner, 14 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Drema Dreshawn

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 97 years in which either name was published, Drema for 62 years and Dreshawn for 35 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Drema Dreshawn
Total US births 2,464736
Most in one year 11250
Babies in 2025 under 514
Estimated living today 1,900720
Median age today 6720
Peak year 19592003
Best rank 997th girls2,180th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked6,143rd
First recorded 19211991
Girls / boys 2,464 / 00 / 736

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 Dremas alive today are over 67; half the Dreshawns are over 20. That is 47 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: Drema and Dreshawn.