Dryden
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning dry valley.
Babies a year
15
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Dryden by the numbers
Dryden was given to 15 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 31 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dryden. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a meadow or field
Like Dryden, each of these has a meadow or field in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Rileyvaliant; rye clearing7,797 in the US (2017)
- Braydenbroad valley; a modern respelling of Braden5,153 in the US (2017)
- Bentleymeadow of bent grass3,945 in the US (2017)
- Haydenvalley with hay3,623 in the US (2017)
- Wesleywestern meadow3,607 in the US (2017)
- Ryleerye clearing; a respelling of Ryley2,971 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dryden
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