Drake

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Drake".

1918 2023 19182023

Key Statistics

Total Births
83
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
1997
First Recorded
1994
Peak Percentile
0.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#843
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
36,066
Peak Births
1,877
Peak Year
2010
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
78.3%
Current Percentile
39.1%
Peak Rank
#192
Current Rank
#555
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Drake

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Drake. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Drake is pronounced as drayk.

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100.0%
drayk (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
D R EY1 K

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Drake. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Drake, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DUH-rehk (2 syllables)
1 name 1.5k births
D AH1 R EH0 K

Names with this pronunciation:

duh-REHK (2 syllables)
3 names 268 births
D AH0 R EH1 K

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D R EY1 K) 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.