girls:
6.2k births since 1970
#2113 (63rd percentile)
boys:
429 births since 2008
#4157 (9th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1970
#3317 (57th percentile)
The name Dream is the #3,317 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,615 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 57.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,113 (63.0% percentile) for all time with 6,186 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,157 (9.3% percentile) for all time with 429 births since 2008.
Dream first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 2008 for boys). Birth data for Dream is available in 30 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (30 years for girls and 16 years for boys). 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 Dream has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 94.7% of babies named Dream were girls.
For girls, Dream reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 66.9% percentile (ranked #318) with 533 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 533 births per million (ranked 66.9% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dream is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #316 (66.7% percentile) with 526 births per million.
For boys, Dream reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #856) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 39 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Dream ranks #864 for boys (5.2% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 72.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dream".
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