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Dresden vs Drevon

American parents have registered 1,155 Dresdens since 1880, against 761 Drevons. Dresden is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dresden against Drevon, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dresden 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 41 years in which either name was published, Dresden for 25 years and Drevon for 16 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Dresden Drevon
Total US births 1,155761
Most in one year 8448
Babies in 2025 188
Estimated living today 1,100750
Median age today 1321
Peak year 20122000
Best rank 1,942nd boys2,087th boys
Rank in 2025 5,208th8,910th
First recorded 19641989
Girls / boys 183 / 9720 / 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 Dresdens are over 13. That is 8 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: Dresden and Drevon.