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Drake

Pronounced /dɹeɪk/

Rank in 2024
#661
Born in 2024
414
Peak year
2010 · #196
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 414 boys were named Drake, about 1 in every 4,143.
  • It peaked in 2010 with 1,877 babies, ranked #196.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1918.
  • 36,489 boys have been named Drake since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Drake per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.7
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 11 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 77 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 837 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 694 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,491 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Z: 21,642 babies, 0.69 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,737 babies, 0.36 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As an English surname, from both senses of the noun drake meaning "male duck" and "dragon." As a German surname, from Low German drake (“dragon”), related to the above. As a Dutch surname, Americanized/West Flemish variant of Draak, also related to the above.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/dɹeɪk/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Drake, CC BY-SA 4.0.