Drea
Drea was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,586 among girls’ names; 858 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Drea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Drea?
#7,586 among girls’ names, 2025
Drea fell from #3,548 in 2015 to #7,586 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 8.7 per million.
50 babies in 2005, the peak
Drea peaked in 2005, when 50 girls were given it, #3,133 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,586 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,313 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,902 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,825 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,445 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,705 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,480 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,351 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,793 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,498 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,548 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,292 | 19.0 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,943 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 45 | #3,540 | 25.6 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,620 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,422 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,508 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,049 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,848 | 15.6 |
| 2006 | 46 | #3,475 | 24.2 |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,133 | 27.1 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,112 | 18.5 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,574 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,953 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,059 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,170 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,140 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,498 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,243 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,130 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,840 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,067 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,112 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,902 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,582 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,430 | 2.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,139 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,783 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Drea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Drea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Drea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Drea, and how old are they?
An estimated 850 Americans named Drea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,023 people named Drea (952 women and girls, 71 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Drea 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 2,161 babies since 1880, Drea is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 46 babies (30%), the second 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 Drea
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 Drea and names like it
- Compare Drea and DeraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDrea peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Drea since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Drea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Drea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.