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Drea

#7,586 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Andrea

Drea has been given to 858 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,586 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Drea, 2025

1 in 237,000

Drea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Drea: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Andrea

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Drea means

Drea is a short form of Andrea.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Drea → Andrea → Andreas. The family’s meaning is “manly”, recorded in English with the source elements andreîos.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andrea.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 858 girls were recorded with the name Drea between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,133 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,705 in 2020 to #7,586 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,548 in 2015 to #7,586 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 Drea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,586
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Drea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dreas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Drea was born before 2011 — so the typical Drea is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
858
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Choose a decade

2010s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (348).

Is Drea 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
−3,273
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,881
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,038
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.0%
Peak was 2005 (50)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,133
2005

Spellings of Drea

Drea is not the most common spelling — Andrea is, with 25.7% against Drea's 0.05%.

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 Drea is used

Across 1910–2025, Drea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 520,226 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5South Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Drea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Drea around the world

Where Drea 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.

  • Canada
    2004–2022
    #2,318
    in 2022

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Drea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,586
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,881
Best rank ever
#3,133
2005
Peak year
2005
50 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
858
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Drea

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

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Sibling names for Drea

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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