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Drema vs Drena

American parents have registered 2,464 Dremas since 1880, against 618 Drenas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Drema against Drena, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Drema Drena

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 71 years in which either name was published, Drema for 67 years and Drena for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Drema Drena
Total US births 2,464618
Most in one year 11237
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,900490
Median age today 6763
Peak year 19591945
Best rank 997th girls1,312th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19211938
Girls / boys 2,464 / 0618 / 0

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 Dremas alive today are over 67; half the Drenas are over 63. That is 4 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: Drema and Drena.