Family name origins & meanings
- 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’.
- English (Norman) and French : from a Germanic personal name composed of Old High German triuwa ‘truth’, ‘trust’ + rīc ‘power(ful)’.
- Irish (County Roscommon) : English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an Druaidh ‘son of the druid’. Compare Drew 6.
