Drexel
Drexel was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,314 among boys’ names; 1,444 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Drexel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Drexel?
#7,314 among boys’ names, 2025
Drexel fell from #4,759 in 2015 to #7,314 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 6.4 per million.
29 babies in 1914, the peak
Drexel peaked in 1914, when 29 babies were given it (24 boys, #1,197 among boys’ names). The 11 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,314 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,939 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,291 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,486 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,000 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,579 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,631 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,838 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,064 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,066 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,759 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,039 | 13.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #5,993 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,698 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,487 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,446 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,901 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,211 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,367 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,026 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,455 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,703 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,048 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,190 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,736 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,444 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,346 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,230 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,051 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,139 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,793 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,632 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,494 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,238 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,600 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,657 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,305 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,996 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,593 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,670 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,757 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,923 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,261 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,845 | 3.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,704 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,788 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,198 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,105 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,441 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 11 | #2,942 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,341 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,787 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,052 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,516 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 26 | #1,532 | 14.0 |
| 1964 | 20 | #1,807 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,064 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,908 | 8.7 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,965 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,240 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 18 | #1,928 | 8.4 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,562 | 11.8 |
| 1957 | 27 | #1,519 | 12.5 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,112 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,805 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,060 | 7.4 |
| 1953 | 21 | #1,683 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,631 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,741 | 10.1 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,132 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,255 | 6.8 |
| 1948 | 16 | #1,898 | 9.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,099 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,183 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,160 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,105 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,317 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,181 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,838 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,826 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,985 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,706 | 15.3 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,538 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,900 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,856 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,623 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,026 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,028 | 13.4 |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,790 | 16.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,844 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 16 | #1,949 | 14.9 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,711 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,974 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,810 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,599 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 17 | #1,980 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,478 | 10.9 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,972 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,526 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,772 | 18.8 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,085 | 15.3 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,730 | 19.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,493 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,178 | 14.6 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,345 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,197 | 36.7 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,603 | 23.4 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,097 | 16.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,658 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Drexel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,444 Americans recorded as Drexel, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 11 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Drexel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Drexel, and how old are they?
An estimated 804 Americans named Drexel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 15 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 814 people named Drexel (63 women and girls, 751 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 819 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Drexel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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