Drury
Drury was last recorded in 1999, when 6 babies were given it; 214 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Drury by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Drury?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,021, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1921, the peak
Drury peaked in 1921, when 11 boys were given it, #2,675 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | #9,021 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,679 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,638 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,021 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,449 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,110 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,218 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,182 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,147 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,331 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 5 | #3,971 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,857 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,823 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,267 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,203 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,318 | 4.2 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,221 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,208 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,539 | 8.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,252 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,911 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,180 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,145 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,053 | 7.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,885 | 5.3 |
| 1923 | 6 | #3,931 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,475 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,675 | 10.0 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,577 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,499 | 7.1 |
| 1916 | 8 | #2,988 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,493 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,372 | 7.6 |
| 1885 | 5 | #976 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Drury a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Drury has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Drury: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Drury, and how old are they?
An estimated 73 Americans named Drury and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 236 people named Drury (36 women and girls, 200 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 89 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,304 babies since 1880, Drury is the third most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 204 babies recorded by SSA was a Drury (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Drury
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Budd | 1,090 |
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.
More about Drury and names like it
- Compare Drury and DruBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sDrury peaked in 1921.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Drury.
- Names starting with DMost given first.