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DrorIn Hebrew: דרור · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: דְּרוֹרRomanization: d'rór
Dror (Hebrew: דרור) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 8,731 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 58 boys and ranked #259. Its peak year was 1967, with 319 babies.
- People in Israel
- 8,731
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 58
- rank #259
- Peak year
- 1967
- 319 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Dror
In Hebrew letters the name is דרור, read right to left. Dror is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "d'rór" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- a male given name, Dror
Borrowed from Akkadian 𒀭𒁺𒊏𒊒 (andurāru, “remission of debts, manumission of slaves, cancelling of illegal impositions on free persons”) or 𒁕𒊏𒊒 (darāru, “freedom; to become free of a task, to move about freely, to run off”).
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Dror by year in Israel
How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Dror
How do you write Dror in Hebrew?
Dror is written דרור in Hebrew (with vowel points: דְּרוֹר). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "d'rór".
How many people in Israel are named Dror?
8,731 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name דרור: 765 women and 7,966 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.
Is Dror a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 9% of the people named דרור are women and 91% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
What does the name Dror mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name, Dror" Etymology: Borrowed from Akkadian 𒀭𒁺𒊏𒊒 (andurāru, “remission of debts, manumission of slaves, cancelling of illegal impositions on free persons”) or 𒁕𒊏𒊒 (darāru, “freedom; to become free of a task, to move about freely, to run off”).
Sources
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.