Drako
Drako was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,311 among boys’ names; 360 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Drako by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Drako mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Drako is “a male given name, variant of Draco.”
A Hellenized spelling of Draco. Compare Drakon, from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Drako?
#7,311 among boys’ names, 2025
Drako rose from #9,828 in 2015 to #7,311 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 6.4 per million.
47 babies in 2021, the peak
Drako peaked in 2021, when 47 boys were given it, #2,701 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,311 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,471 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,369 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,015 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,701 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,289 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,509 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,836 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,224 | 5.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,828 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,743 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,158 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,405 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,242 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,947 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,142 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,482 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,047 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,049 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,389 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,908 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,146 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Drako a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Drako has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Drako: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Drako, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Drako and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 39,175 babies since 1880, Drako is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 417 babies (2.6%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Drako
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 Drako and names like it
- Compare Drako and DrakeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDrako peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Drako since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Drako.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Drako alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.