girls:
183 births since 1964
#5533 (3rd percentile)
boys:
932 births since 1989
#3659 (20th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1964
#6624 (14th percentile)
The name Dresden is the #6,624 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,115 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 14.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,659 (20.2% percentile) for all time with 932 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,533 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 183 births since 1964.
Dresden first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (1964 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Dresden is available in 36 out of the 60 years between 1964 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 24 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 Dresden has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Dresden were boys. Interestingly, until around 1997, the name was more popular for girls (72.3% girls from 1964 to 1996), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (87.0% boys from 1997 to 2023).
For boys, Dresden reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 7.6% percentile (ranked #832) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 36 births per million (ranked 7.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dresden ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 36.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dresden reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #941) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dresden".
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Our model is 84.6% confident that Dresden is pronounced as DREHZ-duhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DREHZ-dihn, at 15.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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