Drury

Last seen for boys in 1999 at #8,704

Peak · boys
1885 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
214
since 1885

Drury over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Drury has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201885peak #936, 1885boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1999#8,7046
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1997#9,2655
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1988#6,4266
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1986#6,7215
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1968#3,3657
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1964#3,0508
1963
1962#4,0335
1961
1960#4,0385
1959#3,9885
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1957#3,2577
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1954#3,8275
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1951#3,7145
1950#3,6815
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1946#3,1736
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1944#3,1096
1943#3,2316
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1940#3,1306
1939#3,1136
1938
1937#2,4799
1936#3,1476
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1932#3,7765
1931#3,0957
1930#4,0015
1929#2,9808
1928
1927#3,7806
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1923#3,8226
1922#4,3075
1921#2,63211
1920#3,4897
1919#3,3917
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1916#2,9268
1915#2,45810
1914#3,2645
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1885#9365
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First appearance
1885

The first year at least five boys were named Drury! It came in at #936, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1885–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Drury is popular in 1885

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Drury
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1999
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1885
  • Peaked 1885 at #936 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1885
Share of babies · boys
1 in 21,560
  • Highest: 1 in 21,560 boys born in 1885 were named Drury (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 320,025 boys born in 1999 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 20.1% of all boys named Drury (43) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#936 (1885)#936
1890s0
1900s0
1910s30#2,458 (1915)#3,010
1920s43#2,632 (1921)#3,502
1930s38#2,479 (1937)#3,269
1940s24#3,109 (1944)#3,161
1950s27#3,257 (1957)#3,693
1960s25#3,050 (1964)#3,622
1970s0
1980s11#6,426 (1988)#6,574
1990s11#8,704 (1999)#8,985

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.

Drury in 1885

boys
#936
5 births · 1 in 21,560 boys

Top boys' names in 1885

  1. #1John8,756
  2. #2William8,044
  3. #3James5,175
  4. #4George4,674
  5. #5Charles4,599
  6. #6Frank3,067
  7. #7Joseph2,540
  8. #8Henry2,406
  9. #9Robert2,322
  10. #10Thomas2,266
  11. #936Drury5
More about 1885

boys

107,799 boys got a published name in 1885; 1 in 21,560 of them was named Drury, which outranked 14.7% of the 1,097 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Drury
  1. #836Wheeler6
  2. #836Zenas6
  3. #836Zollie6
  4. #936Drury5
  5. #936Ada5
  6. #936Albion5
  7. #936Alcide5

Tied with 161 names at #936; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1884
Risers
  1. 426Bryant#848#422
  2. 424Butler#971#547
  3. 424Cyril#971#547
  4. 409Gerhard#848#439
  5. 394Rowland#971#577
Fallers
  1. 520Clarance#416#936
  2. 416Oswald#520#936
  3. 389Doctor#547#936
  4. 366Dexter#570#936
  5. 366Gustaf#570#936

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1885