Name meaning & stats
Drake
Drake means “male duck”. 36,847 US babies since 1940, peak 2010.
What it means
“male duck”
Well documented
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2010
36,847 US babies were named Drake between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Drake (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2010)