Given name
Drin
Drin is a masculine given name from Illyrian. It is used in Albanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Drin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 146
- 146 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 20
- #4,900 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +93%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 20 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,900 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Drin’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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