The Drame surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 342 people carried this name — #59,171 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 833,300 people counted. That is up 92% from 178 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 658 people named Drame.
Most of them — 402 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 30 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
68 people named Drame live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 49 people named Drame live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
20 people named Drame is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Drame in American newspapers,
1846–1958.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 15,537 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Drame,
with a public archive behind them.
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Tiébilé Dramé 1955–2025 · politician -
Ousmane Drame 1991– · basketball player -
Petra Drame 1973– · researcher
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Kadiatou Drame 1979– · basketball player
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Bousso Drame 1985–
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Sanata Drame 1997– · basketball player
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 18 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Drame.
- Drach 394 · U.S. census
- Draghi 334 · U.S. census
- Drago 3,275 · U.S. census
- Dragon 2,475 · U.S. census
- Dragone 766 · U.S. census
- Drain 3,859 · U.S. census
- Dran 133 · U.S. census
- Drane 2,706 · U.S. census
- Drape 147 · U.S. census
- Drapeau 1,408 · U.S. census
- Dray 1,835 · U.S. census
- Dreger 933 · U.S. census
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