Drayden
Drayden was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,848 among boys’ names; 2,173 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Drayden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Drayden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Drayden?
#2,848 among boys’ names, 2025
Drayden fell from #1,524 in 2015 to #2,848 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 56.3 to 25.8 per million.
168 babies in 2012, the peak
Drayden peaked in 2012, when 168 boys were given it, #1,106 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,848 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,427 | 33.1 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,132 | 39.8 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,222 | 37.2 |
| 2021 | 66 | #2,158 | 37.7 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,216 | 35.9 |
| 2019 | 86 | #1,794 | 47.9 |
| 2018 | 124 | #1,411 | 68.3 |
| 2017 | 102 | #1,586 | 55.1 |
| 2016 | 84 | #1,801 | 44.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 108 | #1,524 | 56.3 |
| 2014 | 90 | #1,693 | 46.9 |
| 2013 | 136 | #1,279 | 71.9 |
| 2012 | 168 | #1,106 | 88.6 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,188 | 78.5 |
| 2010 | 140 | #1,252 | 73.0 |
| 2009 | 159 | #1,148 | 80.2 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,116 | 80.4 |
| 2007 | 78 | #1,850 | 37.6 |
| 2006 | 47 | #2,549 | 22.9 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,809 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,606 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,209 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,376 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,004 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,656 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,156 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Drayden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Drayden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Drayden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Drayden, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,173 Americans ever recorded as Drayden. The median Drayden alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,569 people named Drayden (13 women and girls, 1,556 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,080 |
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 Drayden born?
The states with the most babies named Drayden are Texas, California and Ohio, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 192 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 92 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 76 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 70 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 61 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 50 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 43 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 38 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 36 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 36 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Drayden 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,135 babies since 1880, Drayden is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 44 of their 52 babies (85%), again the 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 Drayden
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 Drayden and names like it
- Compare Drayden and DraidenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDrayden peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Drayden since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Drayden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Drayden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.