Meaning not yet researched.
Dresden: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,950 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,950 in 2012; #5,261 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dresden in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,261 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,950.
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Dresden: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,950 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 73 (2012).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Dresden, making it the 5,261st most common boys’ name of the year, down 663 places from #4,598 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 22 boys named Dresden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,950, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #2,308 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Dresden in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #7,038, reached in 1964. The most girls given the name in a single year was 13, in 2017. For comparison, it was #10,340 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dresden in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 1,155 US babies have been given the name, 16% of them girls and 84% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 587 babies named Dresden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 333 US boys were named Dresden; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Drezden and Dresdyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Drezden (106), Dresdyn (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 Dresden in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 18 | #5,261 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,598 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,374 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,355 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,441 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,596 |
| 2019 | — | — | 34 | #3,373 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,007 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,418 | 42 | #2,852 |
| 2016 | — | — | 56 | #2,345 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,340 | 57 | #2,308 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,357 | 53 | #2,408 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,776 | 53 | #2,372 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,910 | 73 | #1,950 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,491 | 48 | #2,554 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,616 | 61 | #2,177 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,790 | 50 | #2,539 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,265 | 60 | #2,213 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,382 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,671 | 23 | #4,131 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,629 | 15 | #5,372 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,126 | 6 | #10,329 |
| 2003 | — | — | 14 | #5,349 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,099 | 8 | #7,857 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,035 | 11 | #6,140 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #6,988 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,164 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,478 | 11 | #5,572 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,544 | 5 | #9,682 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,673 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,838 | 5 | #9,250 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,816 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,813 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,953 | 5 | #8,248 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,043 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,940 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,039 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,038 | — | — |
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).