Jrue

Meaning: Manly, brave
Origin: Greek — Spelling of Drew, a short form of Andrew, taken from the basketball player Jrue Holiday

Boy's name · #817 in the US (2025) · Trending

82% boys · 18% girls — Jrue is also given to girls: 75 in 2025, about 18% in recent years. Jrue →

Popularity over time

Jrue is a new arrival: it first appears in US records in 2009. Roughly 1,900 boys have carried the name since. In 2025 it ranked #817, with about 300 newborns.

Across the states

In recent years, Jrue ran about 6× its national rate in Louisiana.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 24 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#3,153 in Canada (2025).

Famous Jrues

Jrue Holiday — American basketball player (born 1990)

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variants Drew (#553), Jru (#1516), and Dru (#2366), Jrue would rank around #332 with about 1,000 births last year — the newborns split about 53/30/11/6 across Drew, Jrue, Jru, and Dru.

Similar names: Amirion · Jru · Krue · Kaycen · Jahmir · Jahkai

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