Duel
Duel reached its high-water mark in 1930 at number 2,293, and has been recorded 280 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1997. About 70 Duels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Duel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 280
- Estimated living today
- 70
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 2,293rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1916
How old the living Duels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 280 babies given the name since 1916, about 70 are alive — 24 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1930
The most popular boys’ names the year Duel peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.