Drew — #542 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Drew

The Social Security Administration has registered 78,045 babies named Drew between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Drew currently holds the #542 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 2,276 babies received it in a single year. Drew is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9,093 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Drew performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 19,333 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Drew shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6,380 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Drew in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Drew in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 78,045 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.