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Drevon vs Drew

American parents have registered 88,085 Drews since 1880, against 761 Drevons. Drew is still ahead, with 940 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Drevon against Drew, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Drevon Drew

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Drew has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Drevon had 33 and Drew had 1,405.

Side by side

  Drevon Drew
Total US births 76188,085
Most in one year 482,460
Babies in 2025 8940
Estimated living today 75082,000
Median age today 2128
Peak year 20001985
Best rank 2,087th boys126th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th553rd
First recorded 19891880
Girls / boys 0 / 7619,493 / 78,592

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Drews alive today are over 28; half the Drevons are over 21. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Drevon and Drew.