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Draven vs Draxler

American parents have registered 7,968 Dravens since 1880, against 107 Draxlers. Draven is still ahead, with 166 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Draven against Draxler, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Draven Draxler

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Draven has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1994 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Draven had 192 and Draxler had 18.

Side by side

  Draven Draxler
Total US births 7,968107
Most in one year 39018
Babies in 2025 1665
Estimated living today 7,900110
Median age today 165
Peak year 20092017
Best rank 649th boys5,111th boys
Rank in 2025 1,217th12,008th
First recorded 19942017
Girls / boys 253 / 7,7150 / 107

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dravens alive today are over 16; half the Draxlers are over 5. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Draven and Draxler.