Dream
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Meaning
word name from 'dream'
The story
Dream is the wish register said outright, the noun every other name in that register implies: Hope wishes, Haven shelters, Journey travels, and Dream simply names the thing itself. The record is young and steep: about 580 in the 2000s, 2,200 in the 2010s, and already 5,500 so far this decade, two and a half times the full total with years to run. It goes mostly to girls, about 5,100 to 360 this decade, and the all-time ledger reads 7,800 to 560. A famous daughter received it in 2016 and a generation of parents heard it as usable; decade buckets point, they do not convict. In our records the register it crowns has been building for four centuries, from Puritan virtues to this: the plainest wish of all, four letters, filed on the certificate before the child can dream a thing.
How popular is Dream around the world?
In the United States, 5,470 babies were named Dream between 2020 and 2025.
Dream is on the official records of the United States, Canada and England and Wales.
United States
1 in 4,000
In the United States, 5,470 babies were named Dream between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Dream peaked in the 2020s. Dream went to 106 US babies in 2015 and 780 in 2025, 7.4 times as many.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Canada
1 in 28,000
In Canada, 13 girls named Dream were born in 2024, ranked 1,709th among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 45,000
In England and Wales, 13 girls named Dream were born in 2025, ranked 2,138th among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Ireland
last on record 2021
Dream is not on the 2025 record for Ireland, where names under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Dream
Most people given the name Dream in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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The Dream deep dive
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