Drayson
#3,682 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Drayson has been given to 578 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #3,682 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Drayson, 2025
1 in 111,000
Drayson 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Drayson?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 111,000
- 30 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 56,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,682
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 76,598 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Drayson sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drayson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Draysons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Drayson was born before 2015 — so the typical Drayson is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 578
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (285).
Is Drayson 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
- +783
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −14
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,121
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 83.3%
- Peak was 2012 (36)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 43.7% average annual change
Spellings of Drayson
Drayson is not the most common spelling — Grayson is, with 25.8% against Drayson's 0.12%.
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.
Where Drayson is used
Across 1910–2025, Drayson was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,395,280 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Drayson has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Drayson around the world
Where Drayson 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.
- Canada1999–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia1992–2003#588in 2003
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Drayson by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Drayson
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Drayson
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.