girls:
83 births since 1994
#5633 (1st percentile)
boys:
36.1k births since 1918
#593 (87th percentile)
overall:
36.1k births since 1918
#1312 (83rd percentile)
The name Drake is the #1,312 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36,149 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 83.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #593 (87.1% percentile) for all time with 36,066 births since 1918. For girls, it ranks #5,633 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 83 births since 1994.
Drake first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for boys and 1994 for girls). Birth data for Drake is available in 88 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (88 years for boys and 13 years for girls). 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.
The name Drake has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Drake reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 78.3% percentile (ranked #192) with 914 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 914 births per million (ranked 78.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Drake ranks #555 for boys (39.1% percentile) with 215 births per million, which is 23.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Drake reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #860) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Drake".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Drake is pronounced as drayk, which has 1 syllables.
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