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Dreama vs Dreyden

American parents have registered 3,114 Dreamas since 1880, against 592 Dreydens. But in 2025 it was Dreyden that was commoner, 38 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dreama against Dreyden, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dreama Dreyden

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

Of the 100 years in which either name was published, Dreama for 81 years and Dreyden for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dreama Dreyden
Total US births 3,114592
Most in one year 8345
Babies in 2025 under 538
Estimated living today 2,600590
Median age today 5913
Peak year 19582008
Best rank 1,164th girls2,717th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,128th
First recorded 19151999
Girls / boys 3,114 / 00 / 592

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 Dreamas alive today are over 59; half the Dreydens are over 13. That is 46 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: Dreama and Dreyden.