Drue — #3160 US boys' name
1,269 babies named Drue in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 78% of names given to boys today.
18% of everyone ever named Drue was born in this single decade.
46 babies were named Drue in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Drue
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,269 babies named Drue between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Drue currently holds the #3160 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 46 babies received it in a single year. Drue is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,063 additional births since 1893.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Drue performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 232 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Drue shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Drue in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Drue 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 1,269 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.
Drue at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Drue popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1915
- Peak year (2023)
- 46
- Annual births at peak — across 110 years of records
Currently ranks #3160 among boys.
1,269 total births across 110 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 46 births in a single year.
Drue popularity over time — girls
1,063 total births recorded since 1893 (Drue as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Drue accounts for 46% of total recorded use across both genders.
Drue by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 232 births that decade — 18% of Drue's all-time total
Drue decade highlights
- Peak decade 232 births
- Runner-up 163 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Drue's strongest decade
232 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 18% of all-time use.
Drue by state
Where Drue concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 32 | 2.5% |
| #2 | California | | 7 | 0.6% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 6 | 0.5% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 6 | 0.5% |
| #5 | Arkansas | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #6 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Maryland | | 5 | 0.4% |
32 of 1,269 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 2.5% of nationwide
- California 0.6% of nationwide
- North Carolina 0.5% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.5% of nationwide
- Arkansas 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 2.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.