Meaning not yet researched.
Dream: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 718 in 2025. Its best rank was #335 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #335 in 2022; #432 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Dream in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#432 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #335.
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Dream: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 718 girls in 2025. Peak: #335 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 959 (2022).
In 2025, 718 US girls were named Dream, making it the 432nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 65 places from #367 in 2024. That is 132 fewer than the 850 girls named Dream in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #335, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 959. For comparison, it was #2,017 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dream in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 8,327 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 6.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,470 babies named Dream.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,638 US girls were named Dream; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 959. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,239 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dream ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #153 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Aisling, Dreame and Dreme are summarised on this page.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aisling (1,533), Dreame (46), Dreme (21), Dreem (14).
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 Dream in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 27 | #153 | — |
| Alabama | 26 | #169 | — |
| Georgia | 55 | #191 | — |
| Arkansas | 14 | #218 | — |
| Michigan | 41 | #220 | — |
| Mississippi | 12 | #221 | — |
| Maryland | 22 | #236 | — |
| Illinois | 39 | #270 | #1,714 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #272 | — |
| Ohio | 40 | #276 | — |
| Nevada | 9 | #299 | — |
| Florida | 57 | #323 | #1,389 |
| Connecticut | 8 | #357 | — |
| North Carolina | 30 | #361 | — |
| Virginia | 22 | #362 | — |
| Indiana | 18 | #380 | #1,126 |
| Missouri | 15 | #397 | — |
| Tennessee | 18 | #438 | #1,106 |
| New York | 39 | #443 | #1,159 |
| New Jersey | 17 | #454 | #1,225 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #472 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #529 | — |
| California | 59 | #551 | #3,126 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #558 | — |
| Texas | 47 | #652 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #703 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #821 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 718 | #432 | 62 | #2,266 |
| 2024 | 850 | #367 | 64 | #2,241 |
| 2023 | 925 | #337 | 52 | #2,551 |
| 2022 | 959 | #335 | 73 | #2,063 |
| 2021 | 886 | #352 | 60 | #2,308 |
| 2020 | 772 | #404 | 49 | #2,595 |
| 2019 | 586 | #526 | 35 | #3,279 |
| 2018 | 484 | #620 | 30 | #3,629 |
| 2017 | 330 | #827 | 32 | #3,464 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,674 | 10 | #7,751 |
| 2015 | 98 | #2,017 | 8 | #8,967 |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,102 | 20 | #4,745 |
| 2013 | 90 | #2,112 | 12 | #6,723 |
| 2012 | 91 | #2,106 | 12 | #6,726 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,516 | 11 | #7,133 |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,520 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,005 | 6 | #11,388 |
| 2008 | 75 | #2,522 | 6 | #11,454 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,017 | — | — |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,864 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,157 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,535 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,222 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,841 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,323 | — | — |
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).