Drake
Drake is a boy's name that peaked in 2010, when it was the 196th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 827th. About 36,000 Drakes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Drake boys named Drake
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 36,875
- Estimated living today
- 36,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 196th
- Rank in 2025
- 827th
- First recorded
- 1918
- Girls / boys
- 83 / 36,792
How old the living Drakes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 36,875 babies given the name since 1918, about 36,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 16,000 of them are children and 410 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Drakes
- Drake Bell (born 1986)American actor
- Drake Callender (born 1997)American soccer player
- Drake Hogestyn (1953–2024)American actor
- Drake Maye (born 2002)American football player
- Drake Batherson (born 1998)American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Drake Maverick (born 1983)British professional wrestler
- Drake Doremus (born 1983)director; writer
People named Drake with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Drake is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Drake is most concentrated in Iowa (2.6×), Nevada (2.6×), Utah (2.6×), Idaho (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular boys’ names the year Drake peaked:
Drake elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Drake | 341 | 682nd |
| Switzerland boys | Drake | 11 | 1,302nd |
| Scotland boys | Drake | 7 | 595th |
| France boys | Drake | 5 | 4,428th |
| Ireland boys | Drake | 3 | 718th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Drake: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Drake | 5 | 0.000% | 1,036th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Drake | 5 | 0.001% | 777th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Drake | 1 | 0.002% | 194th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Drake against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.