Girl name#1,714 of girl names
Dream
Pronounced D R IY1 M (ARPABET)
- 1 syllable
- Peaked 2022
- 55 years in use
How popular is Dream?
Dream is a girls' name, and first appears in 1970. It has been given to 7,537 children — the 1,714th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about eight times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 957 children were given it.
Characteristics
- 1 syllable
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- D R IY1 M
- Stress pattern:
- 1
- Syllables:
- 1
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Dream
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Dream
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Dream?
- Dream ranks 1,714th among girls' names in US records, with 7,537 births since 1970. Over the past decade it accounts for 6,008.
- Is Dream a unisex name?
- No. Dream is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Dream most popular?
- 2022, when 957 children were given the name. It has been in use for 55 years and is still recorded as of 2024.