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Duaa vs Duan

American parents have registered 664 Duaas since 1880, against 571 Duans. Duaa is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Duaa against Duan, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Duaa Duan

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 68 years in which either name was published, Duan for 39 years and Duaa for 29 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Duaa Duan
Total US births 664571
Most in one year 3025
Babies in 2025 30under 5
Estimated living today 660520
Median age today 1441
Peak year 20251976
Best rank 4,546th girls1,932nd boys
Rank in 2025 4,546thunranked
First recorded 19821953
Girls / boys 664 / 00 / 571

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 Duans alive today are over 41; half the Duaas are over 14. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Duaa and Duan.