as a Last Name
- 10,568
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Drury
Meaning & Origins
English (Norman) and French: nickname from Old French druerie ‘love’, ‘friendship’, a derivative of dru ‘lover’, ‘friend’ (see Drew 3). In Middle English the word also had the concrete meanings ‘love affair’, ‘love token’, ‘sweetheart’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,568
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Drury per capita
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