Meaning not yet researched.
Dru: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,252 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,252 in 1999; #2,366 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Dru in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,366 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,252.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Dru: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,252 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 99 (1999).
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Dru, making it the 2,366th most common boys’ name of the year, up 16 places from #2,382 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 59 boys named Dru in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,252, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #4,329 in 2015 and #2,834 in 1950.
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Dru, making it the 3,594th most common girls’ name of the year, down 177 places from #3,417 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 46 girls named Dru in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,379, reached in 1954. The most girls given the name in a single year was 80, in 2004. For comparison, it was #5,883 in 2015 and #1,971 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dru in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 7 babies. In all, 4,654 US babies have been given the name, 40% of them girls and 60% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 850 babies named Dru.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 572 US boys were named Dru; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,450 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dru ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #696 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Drew (88,085 babies since 1880) and Drue (2,436 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Druey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Druey (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Dru in the open dataset we use.
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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 6 | #696 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #954 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,788 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,565 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,594 | 58 | #2,366 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,417 | 59 | #2,382 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,396 | 76 | #2,004 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,664 | 74 | #2,042 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,697 | 74 | #2,004 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,193 | 52 | #2,475 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,032 | 44 | #2,819 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,175 | 54 | #2,425 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,602 | 48 | #2,606 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,180 | 33 | #3,381 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,883 | 23 | #4,329 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,199 | 26 | #3,933 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,363 | 35 | #3,143 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,870 | 27 | #3,826 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,107 | 32 | #3,384 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,626 | 51 | #2,440 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,634 | 40 | #2,965 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,479 | 37 | #3,125 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,993 | 54 | #2,383 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,490 | 50 | #2,457 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,895 | 58 | #2,118 |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,211 | 72 | #1,752 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,709 | 45 | #2,367 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,158 | 46 | #2,262 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,065 | 55 | #1,963 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,823 | 79 | #1,520 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,485 | 99 | #1,252 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,466 | 79 | #1,437 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,278 | 82 | #1,355 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,922 | 37 | #2,228 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,910 | 46 | #1,868 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,788 | 37 | #2,190 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,746 | 33 | #2,308 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,675 | 34 | #2,228 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,086 | 40 | #1,928 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,000 | 29 | #2,390 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,111 | 37 | #1,961 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,617 | 25 | #2,389 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,913 | 35 | #1,839 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,071 | 40 | #1,625 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,760 | 40 | #1,603 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,442 | 43 | #1,464 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,922 | 37 | #1,604 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,486 | 29 | #1,907 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,792 | 35 | #1,668 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,389 | 23 | #2,237 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,499 | 28 | #1,915 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,837 | 27 | #1,883 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,755 | 24 | #2,024 |
| 1976 | — | — | 23 | #2,067 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,850 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,400 | 18 | #2,302 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,854 | 19 | #2,150 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,201 | 24 | #1,834 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,618 | 19 | #2,150 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,302 | 31 | #1,530 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,358 | 25 | #1,655 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,265 | 31 | #1,406 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,897 | 22 | #1,675 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,022 | 26 | #1,520 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,450 | 28 | #1,460 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,845 | 23 | #1,668 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,988 | 17 | #1,983 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,955 | 20 | #1,822 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,750 | 25 | #1,611 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,899 | 21 | #1,784 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,892 | 27 | #1,528 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,662 | 19 | #1,858 |
| 1957 | 49 | #1,533 | 25 | #1,594 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,492 | 13 | #2,303 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,544 | 13 | #2,242 |
| 1954 | 53 | #1,379 | 13 | #2,235 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,463 | 12 | #2,316 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,793 | 9 | #2,729 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,197 | 10 | #2,539 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,971 | 8 | #2,834 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,105 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,904 | — | — |
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).