Drucilla

Where Drucilla comes from

The dictionaries list Drucilla as a given name — a female given name from Latin, variant of Drusilla — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #651
    9 babies named Drucilla — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1913
    Drucilla Strain born
    American singer, dancer and model
  4. 1950
    Drucilla Cornell born
    American philosopher and feminist theorist
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Drusilla
Namesakes
  • Drucilla Cornell · American philosopher and feminist theorist, 1950–2022
  • Drucilla Strain · American singer, dancer and model, 1913–1994

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.