Drexel
#7,314 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Drexel has been given to 1,444 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #7,314 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Drexel, 2025
1 in 301,000
Drexel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Drexel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,314
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Drexel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drexel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Drexels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Drexel was born before 1957 — so the typical Drexel is around 68 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 13.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 838
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 13.8% of all recorded uses (194).
Is Drexel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −375
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,735
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,555
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.55×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.7%
- Peak was 1957 (27)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.9% average annual change
Spellings of Drexel
Drexel is not the most common spelling — Diesel is, with 38.6% against Drexel's 25.9%.
Where Drexel is used
Across 1910–2025, Drexel was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 416,378 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in —
- 2West Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Drexel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Drexel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Drexel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Drexel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.