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Drusilla

#11,188 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Drusilla has been given to 2,938 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,188 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1955, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Drusilla, 2025

1 in 414,000

Drusilla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Drusilla: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Latin

What Drusilla means

Drusilla is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Latin Drūsilla, feminine diminutive form of the cognomen Drūsus.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Drusilla (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Drusilla is used in English and Latin. Its origins include Latin.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Drusilla is pronounced /dɹuˈsɪlə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,938 girls were recorded with the name Drusilla between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 88 in 1955; its best national rank was #612 in 1886.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,106 in 2020 to #11,188 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,005 in 2015 to #11,188 in 2025.

How common is Drusilla?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,188
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Drusilla sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drusilla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Drusillas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Drusilla was born before 1947 — so the typical Drusilla is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,350
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Choose a decade

1950s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (622).

Is Drusilla 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
+1,328
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,082
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,817
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.1%
Peak was 1955 (88)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#612
1886

Spellings of Drusilla

Drusilla is not the most common spelling — Drucilla is, with 50.0% against Drusilla's 41.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Drusilla is used

Across 1910–2025, Drusilla was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 313,181 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Kentucky1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Drusilla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Drusilla around the world

Where Drusilla ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1955–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Drusilla

People whose public names include Drusilla, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Drusilla in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Drusilla. Linked forms have their own page here.

CillaDrucilla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Drusilla by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,188
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,082
Best rank ever
#612
1886
Peak year
1955
88 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,938
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Drusilla

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Drusilla

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Drusilla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Drusilla

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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