In 2025, 8 US girls were named Drusilla, making it the 11,192nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,329 places from #12,521 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 7 girls named Drusilla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #612, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 88, in 1955. For comparison, it was #15,010 in 2015 and #1,165 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Drusilla in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 8 babies. In all, 2,938 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 622 babies named Drusilla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 55 US girls were named Drusilla; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Drucilla (3,571 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Silla.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.