Drake
Drake is a boy name of English origin, meaning Dragon.
What Drake means
Dragon.
Drake sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Drake comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Drake is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Drake?
In the boy name rankings we track, Drake falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Drake
We group Drake under strength and the natural world — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Drake
These share Drake's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Bear — Strong and brave as a bear.
- Colt — A young, spirited horse.
- Hart — A strong stag.
- Cedar — The strong, fragrant cedar tree.
- Daiki — Great glory; great tree.
- Darragh — Oak tree.
- Borys — Wolf; a fighter.
- Bruno — Brown; a bear.
- Conall — Strong as a wolf.
- Connor — Lover of hounds; strong-willed.
- Conor — Lover of wolves; strong-willed.
- Orson — Bear cub.