Dre
Dre was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,672 among boys’ names; 861 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dre mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dre is “a diminutive of the male given name Andre.”
/ˈdɹeɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dre?
#5,672 among boys’ names, 2025
Dre fell from #3,716 in 2015 to #5,672 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 9.4 per million.
56 babies in 1993, the peak
Dre peaked in 1993, when 56 boys were given it, #1,600 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,672 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,227 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,139 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,636 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 36 | #3,256 | 20.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,945 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,369 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 28 | #3,810 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,609 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,827 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 29 | #3,716 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,038 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,889 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,283 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,126 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,558 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,468 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,765 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,056 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,368 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,360 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,459 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 17 | #4,659 | 8.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,360 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,948 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,332 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,398 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,214 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,507 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,712 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,783 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,870 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 56 | #1,600 | 28.6 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,547 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,855 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,232 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,236 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dre has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 37 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dre, and how old are they?
An estimated 846 Americans named Dre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,728 people named Dre (114 women and girls, 1,614 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 698 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dre 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,392 babies since 1880, Dre is the most given (62% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 27 babies (59%), 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 Dre
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 Dre and names like it
- Compare Dre and DreyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDre peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dre since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Dre.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dre alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.