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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 117,797 of them was named Dru, which outranked 61.7% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,073Zakira16
- #6,073Zamantha16
- #6,073Zayna16
- #6,360Dru15
- #6,360Abagale15
- #6,360Adamary15
- #6,360Addisyn15
- #6,719Aalayah14
- #6,719Aaleyah14
- #6,719Aalyah14
Tied with 358 names at #6,360; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 24,195 of them was named Dru, which outranked 87.3% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,418Treyton80
- #1,418Westin80
- #1,418Wilbert80
- #1,436Dru79
- #1,436Dontrell79
- #1,436Jai79
- #1,436Joshuah79
- #1,449Arnulfo78
- #1,449Ashley78
- #1,449Damani78
Tied with 12 names at #1,436; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.