boys:
140 births since 1988
#4446 (3rd percentile)
overall:
140 births since 1988
#7599 (2nd percentile)
The name Dragon is the #7,599 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,446 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 140 births since 1988.
Dragon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (first recorded for boys in 1988). Birth data for Dragon is available in 15 out of the 35 years between 1988 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Dragon reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #881) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dragon".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dragon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Dragon is pronounced as DRA-guhn, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D R AE1 G AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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