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Drevon vs Drexel

American parents have registered 1,444 Drexels since 1880, against 761 Drevons. Drexel is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Drevon against Drexel, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Drevon Drexel

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

Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Drexel for 83 years and Drevon for 29 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Drevon Drexel
Total US births 7611,444
Most in one year 4829
Babies in 2025 811
Estimated living today 750820
Median age today 2144
Peak year 20001957
Best rank 2,087th boys1,511th boys
Rank in 2025 8,910th7,194th
First recorded 19891910
Girls / boys 0 / 76140 / 1,404

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 Drexels alive today are over 44; half the Drevons are over 21. That is 23 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 Drexel.