Dru

Where Dru comes from

The dictionaries list Dru as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Andrew, also used as a formal given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #2,770 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Peak, #1,249
    99 babies named Dru — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,249.
  4. 2015
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, also used as a formal given name.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Drusilla and Drucilla, also used as a formal given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Dru hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.