Durant vs Durell
American parents have registered 1,742 Durells since 1880, against 351 Durants. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Durant 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 107 years in which either name was published, Durell for 97 years and Durant for 10 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1915–1952 Durell ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1953–1955 Durant ahead
- 1956–2022 Durell ahead, apart from 2 short spells
8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Durant | Durell | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 351 | 1,742 |
| Most in one year | 12 | 208 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 180 | 1,300 |
| Median age today | 39 | 39 |
| Peak year | 1914 | 1985 |
| Best rank | 1,868th boys | 606th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 351 | 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.
Compare something else
Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Durant and Durell.