Dream — #368 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Dream

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,043 babies named Dream between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dream currently holds the #368 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 957 babies received it in a single year. Dream is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 494 additional births since 2008.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dream performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 4,383 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dream shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 536 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Dream in 35 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dream in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,043 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.