girls:
5 births since 2019
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
813 births since 1989
#3774 (18th percentile)
overall:
818 births since 1989
#6921 (11th percentile)
The name Dre is the #6,921 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 818 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 10.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,774 (17.7% percentile) for all time with 813 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2019.
Dre first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 2019 for girls).
The name Dre has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dre reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #718) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 27 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dre ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 52.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dre reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #945) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dre".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dre. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Dre is pronounced as dray, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dree, at 19.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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