Meaning not yet researched.
Draco: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,208 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,208 in 2021; #1,733 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Draco in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,733 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,208.
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Draco: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,208 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 160 (2021).
In 2025, 94 US boys were named Draco, making it the 1,733rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 455 places from #1,278 in 2024. That is 60 fewer than the 154 boys named Draco in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,208, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 160. For comparison, it was #3,174 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Draco in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 8 babies. In all, 1,424 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 751 babies named Draco.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 988 US boys were named Draco; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,171 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Draco ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,261 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Drako, Drayko and Drakko are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Drako (360), Drayko (16), Drakko (10), Drayco (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Draco in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,261 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,401 | — |
| Texas | 13 | #1,427 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,910 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 94 | #1,733 |
| 2024 | — | — | 154 | #1,278 |
| 2023 | — | — | 108 | #1,612 |
| 2022 | — | — | 134 | #1,388 |
| 2021 | — | — | 160 | #1,208 |
| 2020 | — | — | 101 | #1,605 |
| 2019 | — | — | 99 | #1,645 |
| 2018 | — | — | 64 | #2,176 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,084 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,177 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,174 |
| 2014 | — | — | 42 | #2,821 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,777 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,459 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,383 |
| 2010 | — | — | 31 | #3,479 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,625 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #3,963 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,717 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,130 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,745 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,463 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,103 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,827 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,771 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,853 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,104 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,789 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,789 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).