Dreamer

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Dreamer has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1996, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Dreamer, 2024

1 in 669,000

Dreamer over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Dreamer over time

In 2024, Dreamer went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19572024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Dreamer?

Dreamer 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dreamer 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dreamer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dreamers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dreamer was born before 2004 — so the typical Dreamer is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
101
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Dreamer 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 1996 (7)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,596
1958

Spellings of Dreamer

Dreamer is not the most common spelling — Dream is, with 70.7% against Dreamer's 0.92%.

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.

Dreamer by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,596
1958
Peak year
1996
7 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
101
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,016
2019
Peak year
2019
7 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dreamer

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

Sibling names for Dreamer

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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