Dru
Dru is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 59 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 590.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199999 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1950
- 4,552people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,729 boys have been named Dru in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 99 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 20%.
Dru is used for both sexes: 40% of its bearers are girls (1,823), most of them born around 2004.
By decade
In 1999, its biggest year
Dru was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Dru
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Andreaspeak 2006
- Romeropeak 2019
- Ismaelpeak 2024
- Alvaropeak 2000
- Alonpeak 2022
- Neftalipeak 2003
- Eliudpeak 2000
- Eliazarpeak 2007
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.