Dua vs Duaa

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Dua Duaa

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 35 years in which either name was published, Dua for 18 years and Duaa for 17 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1982–1990 Duaa ahead
• 1993 Dua ahead
• 1994–1995 Duaa ahead
• 1996 Dua ahead
• 1997–2004 Duaa ahead
• 2005 Dua ahead
• 2006–2009 Duaa ahead
• 2010 Dua ahead
• 2011 Duaa ahead
• 2012–2025 Dua ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Duaas alive today are over 14; half the Duas are over 4. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Dua New York (4.9×), New Jersey (3.0×), Connecticut (2.6×)
• Duaa New York (7.2×), Michigan (5.1×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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