Dream
#432 for girls in 2025, 718 births · #2,258 for boys in 2025, 62 births
Given to girls 93.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 959 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,771since 1970
Dream over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #432 | 718 | #2,258 | 62 |
| 2024 | #367 | 850 | #2,236 | 64 |
| 2023 | #337 | 925 | #2,541 | 52 |
| 2022 | #335 | 959 | #2,060 | 73 |
| 2021 | #352 | 886 | #2,300 | 60 |
| 2020 | #404 | 772 | #2,586 | 49 |
| 2019 | #526 | 586 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #620 | 484 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #825 | 330 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #1,667 | 128 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #2,012 | 98 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #2,096 | 92 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #2,108 | 90 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #2,095 | 91 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #2,511 | 72 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #2,514 | 73 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #2,005 | 103 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #2,511 | 75 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #3,125 | 55 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,787 | 59 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,033 | 51 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,043 | 49 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,196 | 44 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | — | |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
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| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
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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.
Where Dream is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#46 · 1 in 185
- Louisiana#90 · 1 in 443
- Georgia#141 · 1 in 647
- Maryland#155 · 1 in 670
- Connecticut#206 · 1 in 801
Best ever in a state: #46 in District of Columbia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #46 | 15 | 1 in 185 |
| Louisiana | #90 | 42 | 1 in 443 |
| Georgia | #141 | 70 | 1 in 647 |
| Maryland | #155 | 33 | 1 in 670 |
| Connecticut | #206 | 15 | 1 in 801 |
| Illinois | #208 | 50 | 1 in 968 |
| Nevada | #236 | 11 | 1 in 886 |
| Missouri | #237 | 26 | 1 in 951 |
| Florida | #247 | 72 | 1 in 1,161 |
| South Carolina | #247 | 19 | 1 in 933 |
| Ohio | #260 | 43 | 1 in 1,130 |
| Mississippi | #265 | 11 | 1 in 892 |
| Michigan | #286 | 32 | 1 in 1,198 |
| New York | #289 | 61 | 1 in 1,332 |
| Alabama | #298 | 17 | 1 in 1,122 |
| North Carolina | #308 | 35 | 1 in 1,288 |
| Wisconsin | #316 | 17 | 1 in 1,263 |
| Pennsylvania | #329 | 35 | 1 in 1,394 |
| New Jersey | #331 | 25 | 1 in 1,457 |
| Arkansas | #347 | 9 | 1 in 1,209 |
| Minnesota | #353 | 16 | 1 in 1,393 |
| Tennessee | #388 | 20 | 1 in 1,561 |
| Kansas | #432 | 7 | 1 in 1,654 |
| Kentucky | #463 | 9 | 1 in 1,891 |
| Texas | #519 | 63 | 1 in 2,468 |
| Virginia | #528 | 15 | 1 in 2,305 |
| Oklahoma | #545 | 7 | 1 in 2,125 |
| Indiana | #578 | 11 | 1 in 2,580 |
| Iowa | #579 | 5 | 1 in 2,338 |
| California | #580 | 60 | 1 in 2,909 |
| Arizona | #746 | 8 | 1 in 3,467 |
| Massachusetts | #750 | 6 | 1 in 4,143 |
| Colorado | #877 | 5 | 1 in 4,426 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dream
- 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)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2022 at #335 (959 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- 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%)
- 65.8% of all girls named Dream (5,110) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #7,070 (1970) | #7,070 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 47 | #7,716 (1999) | #9,081 |
| 2000s | 564 | #2,005 (2009) | #3,197 |
| 2010s | 2,044 | #526 (2019) | #1,697 |
| 2020s | 5,110 | #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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 1,852 of them was named Dream, which outranked 98.0% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 29,158 of them was named Dream, which outranked 83.7% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,277Shamar61
- #2,277Thompson61
- #2,277Tyrus61
- #2,300Dream60
- #2,300Amaris60
- #2,300Aren60
- #2,300Azlan60
- #2,321Aarin59
- #2,321Antoni59
- #2,321Bohdi59
Tied with 20 names at #2,300; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.