Dream

#432 for girls in 2025, 718 births · #2,258 for boys in 2025, 62 births
Given to girls 93.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
2022 · 959 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,771
since 1970

Dream over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#432718#2,25862
2024#367850#2,23664
2023#337925#2,54152
2022#335959#2,06073
2021#352886#2,30060
2020#404772#2,58649
2019#526586#3,25935
2018#620484#3,60730
2017#825330#3,44032
2016#1,667128#7,60510
2015#2,01298#8,7448
2014#2,09692#4,70220
2013#2,10890#6,60312
2012#2,09591#6,62612
2011#2,51172#7,00911
2010#2,51473#6,03614
2009#2,005103#10,9946
2008#2,51175#11,0376
2007#3,12555
2006#2,39678
2005#2,78759
2004#3,03351
2003#3,04349
2002#3,19644
2001#3,94032
2000#5,93718
1999#7,71612
1998#8,01611
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five girls were named Dream! It came in at #7,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1971–1992, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Dream
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 65 spots since 2024 (#367#432)
  • 28 spots since 2020 (#404#432)
  • 1,580 spots since 2015 (#2,012#432)
  • Biggest jump: 842 spots in 2017 (#1,667#825)
  • Biggest drop: 65 spots in 2025 (#367#432)
Rise & fade · girls
52 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2022 at #335 (959 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 9 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,710
  • Highest: 1 in 1,710 girls born in 2022 were named Dream (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 2,239 girls born in 2025 (0.04%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 65.8% of all girls named Dream (5,110) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#7,070 (1970)#7,070
1980s0
1990s47#7,716 (1999)#9,081
2000s564#2,005 (2009)#3,197
2010s2,044#526 (2019)#1,697
2020s5,110#335 (2022)#371

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Dream in 1970

girls
#7,070
6 births · 1 in 291,357 girls

Top girls' names in 1970

  1. #1Jennifer46,150
  2. #2Lisa38,967
  3. #3Kimberly34,130
  4. #4Michelle34,047
  5. #5Amy25,212
  6. #6Angela24,929
  7. #7Melissa23,735
  8. #8Tammy19,587
  9. #9Mary19,204
  10. #10Tracy18,464
  11. #7,070Dream6
More about 1970

girls

1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 291,357 of them was named Dream, which outranked 24.4% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dream
  1. #6,362Yvett7
  2. #6,362Zadie7
  3. #6,362Zerlina7
  4. #7,070Dream6
  5. #7,070Aaronette6
  6. #7,070Abril6
  7. #7,070Adrean6
  8. #7,995Abigal5
  9. #7,995Abigale5
  10. #7,995Abigayle5

Tied with 924 names at #7,070; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. 1,541Tanisha#2,515#974
  2. 1,194India#1,955#761
  3. 695Shay#1,648#953
  4. 685Terra#1,303#618
  5. 669Dyan#1,648#979
Fallers
  1. 385Cinnamon#698#1,083
  2. 306Kaye#932#1,238
  3. 303Luanne#990#1,293
  4. 273Laureen#845#1,118
  5. 273Lesia#965#1,238

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1970