Drey
Drey was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,315 among boys’ names; 448 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Drey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Drey?
#7,315 among boys’ names, 2025
Drey fell from #5,805 in 2015 to #7,315 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 6.4 per million.
29 babies in 1995, the peak
Drey peaked in 1995, when 29 boys were given it, #2,569 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,315 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,498 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,002 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,855 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,101 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,100 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,671 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,065 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,747 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,805 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #9,919 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,288 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,076 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,246 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,008 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,338 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,839 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,368 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,572 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,804 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,565 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,364 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,191 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,164 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,362 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,030 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,951 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,731 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,440 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,569 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,494 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 23 | #2,957 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 11 | #4,964 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,856 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,645 | 7.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,637 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,826 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Drey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Drey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Drey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Drey, and how old are they?
An estimated 438 Americans named Drey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 494 people named Drey (34 women and girls, 460 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,478 babies since 1880, Drey is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 27 babies (41%), 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 Drey
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 Drey and names like it
- Compare Drey and DerryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDrey peaked in 1995.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Drey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Drey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.