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Dream

girls’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Dream is ranked 367th among girls in 2024 (846 births). Its best rank was 336th, in 2022.

Rank in 2024
#367down 30 from 2023
Births in 2024
8460.05% of girls
Peak year
2022957 births
Best rank
#336in 2022
Since 1970
7,537people given the name
Babies named Dream, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

7,043 girls have been named Dream in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 957 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2021, and the 2020s alone account for 62%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 494 boys have also been given it, 6.6% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Dream
1970s6
1990s47
2000s564
2010s2,043
2020s4,383

In 2022, its biggest year

Dream was the 336th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2022 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Dream

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.