Drusilla

Where Drusilla comes from

Borrowed from Latin Drūsilla, feminine diminutive form of the cognomen Drūsus.
— Wiktionary's entry for Drusilla
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1884
    Drusilla Wills born
    British actress
  3. 1885
    Drusilla Tanzi born
    Italian writer
  4. 1886
    Peak, #606
    14 babies named Drusilla — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,036.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Drusilla Tanzi · Italian writer, 1885–1963
  • Drusilla Wills · British actress, 1884–1951
  • Drusilla Dunjee Houston · American writer, 1876–1941
  • Drusilla Modjeska · Australian writer and editor, born 1946

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.