Durand vs Durell
American parents have registered 1,742 Durells since 1880, against 1,060 Durands. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Durand Durell
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 109 years in which either name was published, Durell for 72 years and Durand for 37 years. The lead changed hands 23 times.
- 1915–1942 Durell ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1953–1980 Durand ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1981–2022 Durell ahead, apart from one short spell
17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Durand | Durell | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,060 | 1,742 |
| Most in one year | 40 | 208 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 860 | 1,300 |
| Median age today | 48 | 39 |
| Peak year | 1972 | 1985 |
| Best rank | 1,327th boys | 606th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,060 | 0 / 1,742 |
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 Durells are over 39. That is 9 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: Durand and Durell.