Drew
Drew is ranked 542nd among boys in 2024 (550 births). Its best rank was 126th, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- #542down 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5500.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 19852,276 births
- Best rank
- #126in 1985
- Since 1880
- 87,138people given the name
The story in the numbers
78,045 boys have been named Drew in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 2,276 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 323 → 542).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 9,093 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Drew | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 71 | |
| 1890s | 38 | |
| 1900s | 41 | |
| 1910s | 198 | |
| 1920s | 241 | |
| 1930s | 303 | |
| 1940s | 1,224 | |
| 1950s | 3,280 | |
| 1960s | 4,385 | |
| 1970s | 4,169 | |
| 1980s | 15,591 | |
| 1990s | 19,333 | |
| 2000s | 16,710 | |
| 2010s | 9,679 | |
| 2020s | 2,782 |
In 1985, its biggest year
Drew was the 126th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1985 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Drew
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johnathanpeak 1990
- Sergiopeak 1995
- Quintinpeak 1997
- Johnmichaelpeak 1995
- Dontaepeak 1996
- Rigobertopeak 2001
- Montrellpeak 2006
- Rashaadpeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.