# Dream (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dream/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,327 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 556 / 7,771 (93% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 104, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 72 | 2,516 |
| 2012 | 91 | 2,106 |
| 2013 | 90 | 2,112 |
| 2014 | 92 | 2,102 |
| 2015 | 98 | 2,017 |
| 2016 | 128 | 1,674 |
| 2017 | 330 | 827 |
| 2018 | 484 | 620 |
| 2019 | 586 | 526 |
| 2020 | 772 | 404 |
| 2021 | 886 | 352 |
| 2022 | 959 | 335 |
| 2023 | 925 | 337 |
| 2024 | 850 | 367 |
| 2025 | 718 | 432 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 7,133 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,726 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,723 |
| 2014 | 20 | 4,745 |
| 2015 | 8 | 8,967 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7,751 |
| 2017 | 32 | 3,464 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,629 |
| 2019 | 35 | 3,279 |
| 2020 | 49 | 2,595 |
| 2021 | 60 | 2,308 |
| 2022 | 73 | 2,063 |
| 2023 | 52 | 2,551 |
| 2024 | 64 | 2,241 |
| 2025 | 62 | 2,266 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2,286 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,449 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,711 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,621 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1,672 |
| 2025 | 13 | 2,138 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.