Dresden
Boy · DREZ-den · Slavic
Dresden is a boys' name of Slavic origin, meaning “people of the riverside forest”. In 2025 it ranked 5,207th for boys in the US (18 babies).
What does Dresden mean?
Slavic: name of the German city, from Old Sorbian
“people of the riverside forest”
Dresden, capital of Saxony, takes its name from an Old Sorbian word for forest dwellers by the river.
- Say it
- DREZ-den
Is Dresden a girl's or a boy's name?
Dresden is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dresden in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,207among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 95,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 18 boys in the US were named Dresden, making it the 5,207th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,568th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 73 boys. It first appears in the records in 1989.
It has been given to fewer boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer boys named Dresden than any year since 2005.
Half of all the boys named Dresden in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Dresden in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,207 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,567 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,339 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,342 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,424 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,568 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,344 |
| 2018 | 39 | #2,992 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,839 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,335 |
| 2015 | 57 | #2,299 |
| 2014 | 53 | #2,400 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,363 |
| 2012 | 73 | #1,941 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,546 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,168 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,527 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,206 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,372 |
| 2006 | 23 | #4,101 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,273 |
| 2004 | 6 | #9,941 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,265 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,006 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,036 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,460 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,489 |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,898 |
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