Duran vs Durand

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Duran Durand

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 95 years in which either name was published, Duran for 54 years and Durand for 41 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

• 1913–1924 Durand ahead
• 1925–1926 Duran ahead
• 1928–1930 Durand ahead
• 1933 Duran ahead
• 1934–1951 Durand ahead
• 1952 Duran ahead
• 1953–1957 Durand ahead
• 1958 Duran ahead
• 1959–1960 Durand ahead
• 1961 Duran ahead
• 1962–1976 Durand ahead
• 1977–2025 Duran 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 Durands alive today are over 48; half the Durans are over 36. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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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