Dru
#3,577 for girls in 2025, 42 births · #2,363 for boys in 2025, 58 births
Given to boys 59.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 99 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,788since 1950
Dru over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,577 | 42 | #2,363 | 58 |
| 2024 | #3,395 | 46 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 | #1,999 | 76 |
| 2022 | #3,653 | 42 | #2,039 | 74 |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 | #2,000 | 74 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #2,467 | 52 |
| 2019 | #4,006 | 36 | #2,808 | 44 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 | #2,417 | 54 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 | #2,597 | 48 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | #4,295 | 23 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | #3,891 | 26 |
| 2013 | #5,317 | 25 | #3,122 | 35 |
| 2012 | #4,836 | 29 | #3,807 | 27 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #2,429 | 51 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 | #3,103 | 37 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | #2,372 | 54 |
| 2006 | #4,463 | 32 | #2,449 | 50 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 | #2,114 | 58 |
| 2004 | #2,204 | 80 | #1,748 | 72 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #1,960 | 55 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 | #1,514 | 79 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 | #1,249 | 99 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #1,436 | 79 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | #1,350 | 82 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #1,864 | 46 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #2,181 | 37 |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #2,214 | 34 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #1,919 | 40 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #2,373 | 29 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #1,953 | 37 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #2,367 | 25 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #1,829 | 35 |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 | #1,617 | 40 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | #1,594 | 40 |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | #1,458 | 43 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | #1,890 | 29 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 | #1,661 | 35 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #2,213 | 23 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #1,903 | 28 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #1,870 | 27 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #2,008 | 24 |
| 1976 | — | #2,054 | 23 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,835 | 26 | |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 | #2,277 | 18 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | #1,819 | 24 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | #2,126 | 19 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 | #1,523 | 31 |
| 1969 | #3,318 | 17 | #1,642 | 25 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | #1,393 | 31 |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | #1,510 | 26 |
| 1965 | #3,402 | 14 | #1,456 | 28 |
| 1964 | #2,825 | 20 | #1,655 | 23 |
| 1963 | #2,960 | 18 | #1,957 | 17 |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 | #1,805 | 20 |
| 1961 | #1,742 | 43 | #1,602 | 25 |
| 1960 | #1,887 | 36 | #1,772 | 21 |
| 1959 | #1,881 | 35 | #1,522 | 27 |
| 1958 | #1,657 | 42 | #1,838 | 19 |
| 1957 | #1,531 | 49 | #1,583 | 25 |
| 1956 | #1,480 | 51 | #2,263 | 13 |
| 1955 | #1,537 | 44 | #2,219 | 13 |
| 1954 | #1,377 | 53 | #2,207 | 13 |
| 1953 | #1,460 | 45 | #2,287 | 12 |
| 1952 | #1,781 | 31 | #2,680 | 9 |
| 1951 | #2,182 | 21 | #2,495 | 10 |
| 1950 | #1,955 | 24 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dru! It came in at #2,770, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1950–1953, when fewer than 13 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dru
- 7 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #2,363)
- 104 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #2,363)
- 1,932 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #2,363)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1999 at #1,249 (99 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,395 boys born in 1999 were named Dru (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,450 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 19.2% of all boys named Dru (536) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2014, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 149 | #1,522 (1959) | #2,186 |
| 1960s | 238 | #1,393 (1968) | #1,644 |
| 1970s | 239 | #1,523 (1970) | #1,954 |
| 1980s | 344 | #1,458 (1984) | #1,818 |
| 1990s | 516 | #1,249 (1999) | #1,910 |
| 2000s | 536 | #1,514 (2000) | #2,280 |
| 2010s | 373 | #2,417 (2018) | #3,209 |
| 2020s | 393 | #1,999 (2023) | #2,206 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dru in 1954
Top girls' names in 1954
Top boys' names in 1954
More about 1954
girls
1,941,915 girls got a published name in 1954; 1 in 36,640 of them was named Dru, which outranked 79.2% of the 6,625 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,367Nancee54
- #1,367Steven54
- #1,367Taryn54
- #1,377Dru53
- #1,377Catalina53
- #1,377Delphia53
- #1,377Glory53
- #1,392Alane52
- #1,392Annabelle52
- #1,392Ardith52
Tied with 14 names at #1,377; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 156,827 of them was named Dru, which outranked 49.4% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,114Wayde14
- #2,114Wolfgang14
- #2,114Zackery14
- #2,207Dru13
- #2,207Aldon13
- #2,207Alen13
- #2,207Andrei13
- #2,316Adell12
- #2,316Alroy12
- #2,316Alston12
Tied with 108 names at #2,207; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 504Arlin#878 → #1,382
- ↓ 347Adan#895 → #1,242
- ↓ 345Dayton#966 → #1,311
- ↓ 302Garey#966 → #1,268
- ↓ 293Bartholomew#975 → #1,268
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.