Dray
Dray was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 299 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dray by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dray?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,286, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1993, the peak
Dray peaked in 1993, when 18 boys were given it, #3,534 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,286 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,720 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,206 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,638 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,547 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,015 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,060 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #7,635 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,695 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,103 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #9,076 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,243 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,948 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,143 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,209 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,743 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,023 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,451 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,910 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,148 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,068 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,246 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,677 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,782 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,344 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,047 | 4.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,215 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,534 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,963 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,631 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,644 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,286 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,599 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,656 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,020 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,301 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,787 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dray a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dray has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dray: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dray, and how old are they?
An estimated 291 Americans named Dray and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 414 people named Dray (24 women and girls, 390 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dray rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,945 babies since 1880, Dray is the third most given (10% of them). In 2025 none of their 40 babies recorded by SSA was a Dray (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dray
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 Dray and names like it
- Compare Dray and DarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDray peaked in 1993.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dray.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dray alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.