Draco
Draco was given to 94 boys in 2025, #1,733 among boys’ names; 1,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Draco and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Draco by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Draco mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Draco is “a male given name from Ancient Greek or Latin.”
Borrowed from Latin Dracō, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn). Doublet of Dracon, dracone, dragon, and dragoon.
/ˈdɹeɪkoʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Draco?
#1,733 among boys’ names, 2025
Draco rose from #3,173 in 2015 to #1,733 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 18.8 to 55.0 per million.
160 babies in 2021, the peak
Draco peaked in 2021, when 160 boys were given it, #1,208 among boys’ names. The 94 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #1,733 | 55.0 |
| 2024 | 154 | #1,278 | 89.4 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,612 | 63.1 |
| 2022 | 134 | #1,388 | 76.7 |
| 2021 | 160 | #1,208 | 91.5 |
| 2020 | 101 | #1,605 | 58.5 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,645 | 55.2 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,175 | 35.2 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,083 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,176 | 19.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,173 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,819 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,775 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,458 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,382 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,478 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,623 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,960 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,715 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,126 | 11.2 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,741 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,458 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,098 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,820 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,764 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,846 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,097 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,781 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,783 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Draco a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Draco has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Draco: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Draco, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,424 Americans ever recorded as Draco. The median Draco alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 658 people named Draco (6 women and girls, 652 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 693 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 326 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,090 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Draco born?
The states with the most babies named Draco are California, Texas and Florida, with 87% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,261 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,427 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,910 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,401 | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Draco with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 39,057 babies since 1880, Draco is the second most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 94 of their 509 babies (18%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Draco
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Draco and names like it
- Compare Draco and DrakeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDraco peaked in 2021.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Draco since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Draco: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Draco.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Draco alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.