Dream
Dream was given to 718 girls in 2025, #432 among girls’ names; 8,327 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,280 Americans named Dream and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dream by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dream?
#432 among girls’ names, 2025
Dream rose from #2,017 in 2015 to #432 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.45 per 1,000.
1,032 babies in 2022, the peak
Dream peaked in 2022, when 1,032 babies were given it (959 girls, #335 among girls’ names). The 780 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 718 | #432 | 0.45 |
| 2024 | 850 | #367 | 0.52 |
| 2023 | 925 | #337 | 0.58 |
| 2022 | 959 | #335 | 0.58 |
| 2021 | 886 | #352 | 0.54 |
| 2020 | 772 | #404 | 0.48 |
| 2019 | 586 | #526 | 0.35 |
| 2018 | 484 | #620 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 330 | #827 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,674 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 98 | #2,017 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,102 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 90 | #2,112 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,106 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,515 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,520 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,005 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,522 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,136 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,406 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,789 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,036 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,052 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,205 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,965 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,012 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,858 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,151 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,530 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,835 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,322 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dream a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,327 Americans recorded as Dream, 93% are girls and 7% boys. In 2025 it went to 718 girls and 62 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dream: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dream, and how old are they?
8,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,327 Americans ever recorded as Dream. The median Dream alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
The 2020 Census counted 2,319 people named Dream (2,105 women and girls, 214 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,044 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 874 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,380 |
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 Dream born?
The states with the most babies named Dream are Georgia, California and Florida, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 61 | #191 | 1.7× |
| California | 59 | #551 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 57 | #323 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 47 | #652 | 0.6× |
| New York | 44 | #443 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 41 | #220 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 40 | #276 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 39 | #270 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 30 | #361 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #472 | 0.9× |
Where Dream is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dream is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1970 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Dream with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dream
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 Dream and names like it
- Compare Dream and NaylaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDream peaked in 2022.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dream since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Dream.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dream alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.