Meaning not yet researched.
Drew: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 541 in 2025. Its best rank was #126 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #126 in 1985; #553 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Drew in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#553 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #126.
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Drew: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 541 boys in 2025. Peak: #126 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 2,276 (1985).
In 2025, 541 US boys were named Drew, making it the 553rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 11 places from #542 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 551 boys named Drew in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #126, reached in 1985. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,276. For comparison, it was #363 in 2015 and #472 in 1950.
In 2025, 399 US girls were named Drew, making it the 706th most common girls’ name of the year, down 10 places from #696 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 404 girls named Drew in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #615, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 404, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,185 in 2015 and #3,496 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Drew in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 88,085 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 21,487 babies named Drew.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,984 US boys were named Drew; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 800. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,157 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Drew ranked highest in North Dakota in 2025, at #207 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Andrew (1,334,415 babies since 1880) and Dru (4,654 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Drew in the open dataset we use.
Drew is listed as a nickname for Andrew, Woodrow.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | 6 | #207 | #183 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #229 | #291 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #233 | #222 |
| Utah | 21 | #249 | #173 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #338 | #260 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | #344 | #283 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #375 | #295 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #405 | #369 |
| Kentucky | 11 | #433 | #437 |
| Michigan | 19 | #450 | #229 |
| Missouri | 13 | #466 | #273 |
| Ohio | 22 | #477 | #323 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #479 | #271 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #483 | — |
| Tennessee | 16 | #485 | #501 |
| Indiana | 14 | #493 | #304 |
| Texas | 61 | #534 | #492 |
| Washington | 13 | #539 | #474 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #551 | #260 |
| Maryland | 8 | #591 | #257 |
| Alabama | 8 | #591 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #614 | #359 |
| Kansas | 5 | #614 | #341 |
| California | 47 | #617 | #421 |
| New York | 24 | #625 | #345 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #643 | #454 |
| Florida | 24 | #669 | #450 |
| Virginia | 10 | #688 | #390 |
| Colorado | 7 | #702 | #604 |
| North Carolina | 12 | #728 | #476 |
| Georgia | 12 | #761 | #555 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #775 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #954 | #423 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 399 | #706 | 541 | #553 |
| 2024 | 404 | #696 | 551 | #542 |
| 2023 | 370 | #761 | 549 | #539 |
| 2022 | 332 | #846 | 568 | #521 |
| 2021 | 339 | #819 | 579 | #509 |
| 2020 | 272 | #942 | 538 | #531 |
| 2019 | 184 | #1,263 | 552 | #518 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,280 | 631 | #461 |
| 2017 | 205 | #1,192 | 675 | #454 |
| 2016 | 216 | #1,166 | 800 | #399 |
| 2015 | 213 | #1,185 | 896 | #363 |
| 2014 | 213 | #1,161 | 1,062 | #323 |
| 2013 | 226 | #1,091 | 1,179 | #299 |
| 2012 | 234 | #1,069 | 1,239 | #282 |
| 2011 | 170 | #1,354 | 1,232 | #285 |
| 2010 | 167 | #1,384 | 1,414 | #247 |
| 2009 | 176 | #1,356 | 1,263 | #273 |
| 2008 | 170 | #1,398 | 1,479 | #244 |
| 2007 | 210 | #1,199 | 1,831 | #215 |
| 2006 | 197 | #1,223 | 1,860 | #207 |
| 2005 | 252 | #971 | 1,950 | #198 |
| 2004 | 240 | #987 | 1,667 | #212 |
| 2003 | 200 | #1,102 | 1,572 | #222 |
| 2002 | 214 | #1,016 | 1,575 | #217 |
| 2001 | 264 | #865 | 1,565 | #219 |
| 2000 | 283 | #803 | 1,948 | #188 |
| 1999 | 395 | #615 | 2,009 | #175 |
| 1998 | 276 | #779 | 1,803 | #188 |
| 1997 | 250 | #829 | 1,994 | #171 |
| 1996 | 287 | #734 | 2,101 | #165 |
| 1995 | 280 | #730 | 2,180 | #160 |
| 1994 | 194 | #957 | 1,856 | #171 |
| 1993 | 166 | #1,090 | 1,854 | #173 |
| 1992 | 126 | #1,329 | 1,779 | #182 |
| 1991 | 94 | #1,612 | 1,804 | #177 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,722 | 1,954 | #160 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,689 | 2,013 | #150 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,760 | 1,754 | #159 |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,351 | 1,759 | #160 |
| 1986 | 112 | #1,226 | 2,000 | #138 |
| 1985 | 121 | #1,173 | 2,276 | #126 |
| 1984 | 79 | #1,464 | 1,765 | #153 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,524 | 1,376 | #182 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,598 | 1,012 | #230 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,043 | 917 | #242 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,388 | 720 | #288 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,677 | 625 | #312 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,836 | 547 | #322 |
| 1977 | — | — | 484 | #358 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,508 | 418 | #375 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,272 | 376 | #397 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,959 | 377 | #398 |
| 1973 | — | — | 302 | #453 |
| 1972 | — | — | 322 | #442 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,643 | 314 | #460 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,336 | 403 | #403 |
| 1969 | — | — | 374 | #411 |
| 1968 | — | — | 400 | #390 |
| 1967 | — | — | 373 | #395 |
| 1966 | — | — | 430 | #363 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,277 | 409 | #383 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,622 | 418 | #390 |
| 1963 | 8 | #4,997 | 421 | #389 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,053 | 438 | #382 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,655 | 570 | #329 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,754 | 553 | #328 |
| 1959 | 17 | #2,897 | 540 | #334 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,034 | 440 | #370 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,585 | 470 | #348 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,087 | 486 | #338 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,635 | 260 | #459 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,551 | 260 | #448 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,534 | 213 | #482 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,221 | 214 | #475 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,330 | 195 | #483 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,496 | 202 | #472 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,454 | 206 | #459 |
| 1948 | — | — | 185 | #488 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,470 | 213 | #460 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,916 | 234 | #415 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,726 | 88 | #646 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,460 | 72 | #733 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,853 | 74 | #755 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,244 | 55 | #891 |
| 1941 | — | — | 48 | #919 |
| 1940 | — | — | 49 | #911 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,417 | 44 | #945 |
| 1938 | — | — | 36 | #1,080 |
| 1937 | — | — | 20 | #1,547 |
| 1936 | — | — | 29 | #1,232 |
| 1935 | — | — | 25 | #1,367 |
| 1934 | — | — | 19 | #1,622 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,379 | 30 | #1,211 |
| 1932 | — | — | 31 | #1,220 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,497 | 30 | #1,259 |
| 1930 | — | — | 39 | #1,120 |
| 1929 | — | — | 22 | #1,576 |
| 1928 | — | — | 23 | #1,579 |
| 1927 | — | — | 24 | #1,571 |
| 1926 | — | — | 25 | #1,483 |
| 1925 | — | — | 21 | #1,696 |
| 1924 | — | — | 21 | #1,739 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,155 | 22 | #1,653 |
| 1922 | — | — | 33 | #1,266 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,621 | 23 | #1,596 |
| 1920 | — | — | 27 | #1,431 |
| 1919 | — | — | 26 | #1,418 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,980 | 20 | #1,730 |
| 1917 | — | — | 26 | #1,373 |
| 1916 | — | — | 26 | #1,348 |
| 1915 | — | — | 26 | #1,317 |
| 1914 | — | — | 19 | #1,404 |
| 1913 | — | — | 21 | #1,122 |
| 1912 | — | — | 13 | #1,375 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,423 |
| 1910 | — | — | 14 | #829 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,513 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,020 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,153 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,129 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #904 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #985 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #975 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,139 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,123 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #985 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,083 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #989 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,043 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,009 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #664 |
| 1886 | — | — | 12 | #551 |
| 1884 | — | — | 8 | #715 |
| 1883 | — | — | 11 | #567 |
| 1882 | — | — | 11 | #584 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #664 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #845 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).