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Drago

#9,960 in 2025Boys' name

Dear

Drago has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #9,960 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Drago, 2025

1 in 474,000

Drago 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Drago: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Drago means

Drago means “dear”, associated with drȃg.

Origin, language, and formation

Drago is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Drago is pronounced /drâːɡo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 127 boys were recorded with the name Drago between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,307 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,835 in 2020 to #9,960 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,215 in 2015 to #9,960 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Drago?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,960
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Drago 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drago. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dragos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Drago was born before 2018 — so the typical Drago is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
127
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Choose a decade

2010s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Drago 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
−2,584
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−125
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,745
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2024 (11)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,307
1973

Spellings of Drago

Drago is not the most common spelling — Diego is, with 74.4% against Drago's 0.07%.

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.

Drago around the world

Where Drago 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.

  • France
    1972–2015
    #5,973
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    1971–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Drago by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,960
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 125
Best rank ever
#5,307
1973
Peak year
2024
11 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
127
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Drago

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

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Sibling names for Drago

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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