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Dacre

#7,782 in 2025Boys' name

Trickling stream

Dacre has been given to 82 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #7,782 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Dacre, 2025

1 in 332,000

Dacre over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dacre: meaning, origin, and history

Trickling stream

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dacre means

Dacre means “trickling stream”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 82 boys were recorded with the name Dacre between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,911 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,883 in 2020 to #7,782 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dacre?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,782
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dacre sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dacre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dacres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dacre was born before 2022 — so the typical Dacre is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
91.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
82
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 91.5% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Dacre rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−432
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,101
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2023 (20)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,911
2023

Spellings of Dacre

Dacre is not the most common spelling — Dale is, with 37.6% against Dacre's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Dacre around the world

Where Dacre ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Dacre by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,782
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,101
Best rank ever
#4,911
2023
Peak year
2023
20 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
82
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Dacre

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dacre

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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