Meaning not yet researched.
Drake: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 299 in 2025. Its best rank was #196 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #196 in 2010; #827 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Drake in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#827 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #196.
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Drake: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 299 boys in 2025. Peak: #196 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 1,877 (2010).
In 2025, 299 US boys were named Drake, making it the 827th most common boys’ name of the year, down 168 places from #659 in 2024. That is 117 fewer than the 416 boys named Drake in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #196, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,877. For comparison, it was #397 in 2015 and #1,171 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Drake in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 36,875 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 13,562 babies named Drake.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,098 US boys were named Drake; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 696. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,713 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Drake ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #225 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Drayke, Drayce and Drace 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: Drayke (358), Drayce (307), Drace (91), Drayk (87), Draike (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 Drake 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 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 18 | #225 | #150 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #312 | #103 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #319 | #165 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #357 | #232 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #433 | #272 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #453 | #207 |
| Alabama | 10 | #491 | #278 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #516 | #539 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #581 | #366 |
| Indiana | 11 | #593 | #362 |
| Georgia | 16 | #634 | #525 |
| Missouri | 8 | #668 | #172 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #713 | #251 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #733 | #392 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #839 | #294 |
| Florida | 17 | #856 | #609 |
| Arizona | 6 | #869 | #603 |
| Ohio | 9 | #883 | #496 |
| North Carolina | 9 | #885 | #495 |
| Illinois | 9 | #885 | #390 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,021 | #525 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,023 | #306 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,040 | #995 |
| New York | 10 | #1,148 | #909 |
| California | 13 | #1,377 | #579 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 299 | #827 |
| 2024 | — | — | 416 | #659 |
| 2023 | — | — | 398 | #681 |
| 2022 | — | — | 442 | #630 |
| 2021 | — | — | 496 | #568 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,760 | 527 | #535 |
| 2019 | — | — | 488 | #571 |
| 2018 | — | — | 687 | #440 |
| 2017 | — | — | 649 | #468 |
| 2016 | — | — | 696 | #444 |
| 2015 | — | — | 782 | #397 |
| 2014 | — | — | 943 | #349 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,217 | #284 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,547 | #230 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,607 | #222 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,615 | 1,877 | #196 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,587 | #230 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,590 | #232 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,524 | #239 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,410 | #242 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,023 | 1,338 | #247 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,664 | 1,268 | #262 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,790 | 1,130 | #273 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,169 | #267 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,034 | 1,245 | #263 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,656 | 1,270 | #261 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,146 | 1,049 | #282 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,907 | 1,057 | #270 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,056 | 974 | #286 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,283 | 867 | #307 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,203 | 795 | #326 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,896 | 725 | #340 |
| 1993 | — | — | 682 | #349 |
| 1992 | — | — | 526 | #425 |
| 1991 | — | — | 424 | #480 |
| 1990 | — | — | 341 | #539 |
| 1989 | — | — | 272 | #592 |
| 1988 | — | — | 228 | #626 |
| 1987 | — | — | 138 | #786 |
| 1986 | — | — | 122 | #823 |
| 1985 | — | — | 103 | #892 |
| 1984 | — | — | 66 | #1,117 |
| 1983 | — | — | 82 | #972 |
| 1982 | — | — | 54 | #1,265 |
| 1981 | — | — | 66 | #1,126 |
| 1980 | — | — | 47 | #1,382 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,443 |
| 1978 | — | — | 25 | #1,982 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,754 |
| 1976 | — | — | 27 | #1,843 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,470 |
| 1974 | — | — | 43 | #1,297 |
| 1973 | — | — | 38 | #1,360 |
| 1972 | — | — | 43 | #1,265 |
| 1971 | — | — | 41 | #1,313 |
| 1970 | — | — | 60 | #1,057 |
| 1969 | — | — | 54 | #1,052 |
| 1968 | — | — | 54 | #1,007 |
| 1967 | — | — | 49 | #1,047 |
| 1966 | — | — | 54 | #996 |
| 1965 | — | — | 70 | #876 |
| 1964 | — | — | 61 | #976 |
| 1963 | — | — | 49 | #1,095 |
| 1962 | — | — | 66 | #931 |
| 1961 | — | — | 76 | #877 |
| 1960 | — | — | 54 | #1,049 |
| 1959 | — | — | 48 | #1,122 |
| 1958 | — | — | 50 | #1,082 |
| 1957 | — | — | 41 | #1,223 |
| 1956 | — | — | 43 | #1,158 |
| 1955 | — | — | 38 | #1,225 |
| 1954 | — | — | 35 | #1,277 |
| 1953 | — | — | 30 | #1,385 |
| 1952 | — | — | 41 | #1,158 |
| 1951 | — | — | 35 | #1,247 |
| 1950 | — | — | 38 | #1,171 |
| 1949 | — | — | 32 | #1,282 |
| 1948 | — | — | 41 | #1,111 |
| 1947 | — | — | 31 | #1,323 |
| 1946 | — | — | 28 | #1,335 |
| 1945 | — | — | 11 | #2,160 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #2,015 |
| 1943 | — | — | 15 | #1,936 |
| 1942 | — | — | 12 | #2,181 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,530 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,957 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,145 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,121 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,942 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,339 |
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).