Dray
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dray has been given to 299 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Dray, 2024
1 in 557,000
Dray over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dray?
Dray had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dray sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dray. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Drays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dray was born before 2001 — so the typical Dray is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 299
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Dray 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (18)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Dray
Dray is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 20.5% against Dray'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.
Dray around the world
Where Dray 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 & Wales1996–2017#2,512in 2017
- Canada2002–2012#2,411in 2012
- South Australia1999–2003#588in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dray by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dray
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dray
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.