Drexel
Drexel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 195727 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1910
- 1,433people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,393 boys have been named Drexel in the United States since 1910, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 27 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 14%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 40 girls have also been given it, 2.8% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Drexel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 130 | |
| 1920s | 163 | |
| 1930s | 148 | |
| 1940s | 125 | |
| 1950s | 194 | |
| 1960s | 162 | |
| 1970s | 58 | |
| 1980s | 70 | |
| 1990s | 53 | |
| 2000s | 82 | |
| 2010s | 145 | |
| 2020s | 63 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Drexel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Drexel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Herculespeak 2023
- Calvertpeak 1924
- Gennaropeak 1926
- Saveriopeak 1922
- Harlonpeak 1939
- Elsonpeak 1924
- Donatopeak 1926
- Aldonpeak 1929
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.