# Dries (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dries/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | 11,140 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |

## People named Dries

- Dries Mertens, Belgian association football player (born 1987)
- Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
- Dries van der Lof, Dutch racing driver (1919–1990)
- Dries De Bondt, Belgian cyclist
- Dries Buytaert, computer programmer
- Dries van Noten, Belgian fashion designer
- Dries Wouters, Belgian association football player
- Dries Riphagen, Dutch criminal, nazi collaborator (1909-1973)
- Dries Holten, Dutch singer and songwriter (1936-2020)
- Dries Van Gestel, Belgian cyclist
- Dries Boussatta, Dutch footballer
- Dries Wuytens, Belgian footballer

## 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.