NAME OF THE DAY: Drake

With 🎙rapper Drake breaking 💥 the internet 💻 with the release of his new 💿album 🧊Iceman plus two 😮surprise albums — I will be talking about the 🎼In My Feelings (aka "Kiki do you love me?") 🎤singer's stage name and middle name: 📛Drake

The 🗣podcaster Bobbi Althoff had Drake on her show for the first time years ago, and a funny 😂 discussion was had on his name (@🔊00:35 & @🔊27:33): 

Can you introduce yourself?

Drake

That's not your name

That is my middle name

That's not your real name

That's my government name, middle name

Why would you go with that? What's your 1st name?

My 1st name is Aubrey

Mmm hmmm. I see why you go with that

I think my mom named me after a lawyer... My mom named me Aubrey a guy's name

Aubrey's not a guy's name

Yes it is

No it's not

Yes it is

Have you ever met a male Aubrey?

Yeah you're looking at him. I met myself

You don't even go by that because that's such a bad name

No that's not true

Why do you go by Drake?

Because it's shorter. People with two syllables are way less successful than people with one sorry...

Do you like when people call you Aubrey?

If it's genuine

📛Aubrey (meaning: 🧝‍♂️elf ruler) 📛Drake (meaning: 🐲dragon or 🦆duck) Graham is his full name.

📛Aubrey is a girl's name also. 📛Nameberry🍒 says, "Once an exclusively masculine name, Aubrey tipped towards feminine in 1974, and is now given to girls 96% of the time."

📛Drake can also be a girl's name. 📛NB🍒 says, "The name Drake peaked for girls at #10056 in 1997." 

📛Drake used as a boy's name, is described by 📛Nameberry🍒 as a, "simple one-syllable name that has been on the popularity list since the mid-1980s, Drake is most associated today with the single-named rapper (born Aubrey). The name peaked at Number 197 in 2010 and has since been on a slow decline, but it still can be counted among the stylish contemporary boy names starting with D." 

Drake is at #827 in US Top 1000 as of 2025. 

In Canada however, Drake's hometown, the name Drake was not on 2025's most popular baby names list  — Drake the baby name is at #1458 in popularity as of 2022.  

Drake also is a word name, meaning: a small cannon, used especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Behind The Name points out, "this name coincides with the unrelated English word drake meaning male duck."

Drake as well, is a surname from the: "English surname derived from the Old Norse byname Draki or the Old English byname Draca both meaning "dragon", both via Latin from Greek δράκων (drakon) meaning "dragon, serpent.""  

📍California and 📍Hawaii are the US states where the most Drakes reside. 

Initially, I was not 🙅🏾‍♀️ a fan of the name 📛Drake. I thought it was a made up 🤷🏾‍♀️ stage name when I first hard of Drake the rapper's name being that. I equated the name Drake usually with the lusty 🥵leads of 🥱boring ⏪historical 💞romance novels.📕 I used to even often confuse Drake with the name 📛Declan (I don't like❗). Then I found out years later that Drake was the rapper's real name 🤦🏾‍♀️ — his middle however (I like it more than his first name admittedly. 🙋🏾‍♀️ It can get tricky, not to mix up Aubrey with 📛Audrey. 😬 It makes me wonder if his first name was that instead, would he have used Drey as his stage name? 🤔 because it sounds like Drake...) and I thought that was really cool. 😎 As I became a fan of his 🎶music, I started to like the name Drake. Still I'm not the biggest fan of 📛Drake the name as a whole. 😖 📛Drake may not be one of my absolute favorite names — however it's still a ✔good, ✔strong💪, ✔masculine name that I can appreciate. 👌🏾 But I am a big fan 😍 of 📛Drake — being the rapper Drake's name. 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛DRAKES:

📛Jared Drake Bell 🎥 /🎤 (actor & singer)

📛Drake Parker 📺 (character on tv show Drake & Josh played by Jared Drake Bell)

📛Donald Drake Hogestyn 🎥 (actor)

📛Drake Dunsmore 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Maye 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Nevis 🏈 (pro football player)

📛Drake Berehowsky 🏒 (former pro hockey player)

📛Drake Richard Diener 🏀 (pro basketball player)

📛Drake Gaines (💙son of 📺reality stars Chip & Joanna Gaines)

📛Drake Saul (💙son of 👠model Cassi Van Den Dungen and Brad Saul)

📛Drake Mallard 🦆 (duck character in cartoon Darkwing Duck) 

📛Drake Merwin 📘 (character in book series Gone by Michael Grant

📛Drake 📘 (character in book series Beyonders by Brandon Mull)

📛Drake Bamfylde 📘 (character in book The Maid of Sker by R.D. Blackmore)

📛Drake Stone 🎥(character in movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

📛Drake McHugh 🎥 (character in movie King's Row)

📛Drake Howard 📺 (character on tv show The Office)

📛Drake Ramoray 📺 (character on Friends in a fictional take on Days of Our Lives)

📛Drake Edgewater 🎮 (character in videogame Quarantine)

📛Drake 🎮 (character in videogame NBA street) 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Drake: 

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/D/DR/DRAKE/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Drake: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙/10