girls:
40 births since 1914
#5676 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1910
#3249 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1910
#6323 (18th percentile)
The name Drexel is the #6,323 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,421 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 18.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,249 (29.1% percentile) for all time with 1,381 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,676 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 40 births since 1914.
Drexel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Drexel is available in 107 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 7 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Drexel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Drexel reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #437) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 35 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Drexel ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 21.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Drexel reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #606) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Drexel".
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