Dream

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 357 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
357
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#432
down from #367
UK popularity
#2138
13 babies

How Dream has moved

US popularity rank, 2017–2025. Lower is more popular.
#267#581#895201720212025#432

View as table
YearUS rank
2017#827
2018#622
2019#526
2020#405
2021#352
2022#336
2023#335
2024#367
2025#432

Dream by the numbers

In 2025, 13 babies in England and Wales were named Dream. In the US, 357 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Dream

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dream. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

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