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Drexel vs Dreyden

American parents have registered 1,444 Drexels since 1880, against 592 Dreydens. But in 2025 it was Dreyden that was commoner, 38 babies to 11.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Drexel against Dreyden, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Drexel Dreyden

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 109 years in which either name was published, Drexel for 89 years and Dreyden for 20 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Drexel Dreyden
Total US births 1,444592
Most in one year 2945
Babies in 2025 1138
Estimated living today 820590
Median age today 4413
Peak year 19572008
Best rank 1,511th boys2,717th boys
Rank in 2025 7,194th3,128th
First recorded 19101999
Girls / boys 40 / 1,4040 / 592

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 Drexels alive today are over 44; half the Dreydens are over 13. That is 31 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: Drexel and Dreyden.