Boy
Drew
As a boy's name, Drew traces back to Greek, where it is understood to mean "Greek, manly, brave". It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. In total, about 80,970 American babies have carried this name since 1900.
EtymologyShort for Andrew
GreekGreek – "manly, brave"
Births by decade
1900s
41
1910s
205
1920s
253
1930s
318
1940s
1,273
1950s
3,404
1960s
4,448
1970s
4,232
1980s
16,287
1990s
21,478
2000s
18,913
2010s
10,118
Peaked in the 1990s · 80,970 total U.S. births since 1900