Duaine
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Duaine has been given to 1,052 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1932, with 35 recorded.
Babies named Duaine, 1996
1 in 608,000
Duaine over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Duaine?
Duaine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 608,000
- 6 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 421,209 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Duaine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Duaine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Duaines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Duaine was born before 1945 — so the typical Duaine is around 80 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 25.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 8.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 434
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (271).
Is Duaine rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1932 (35)
- Years since peak
- 93
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.6% average annual change
Spellings of Duaine
Duaine is not the most common spelling — Duane is, with 37.9% against Duaine's 0.35%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Duaine is used
Across 1910–2025, Duaine was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 113,330 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 2North Dakota1 in 100,000
- 3Wisconsin1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Duaine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Duaine around the world
Where Duaine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–1996#1,591in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Duaine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Duaine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Duaine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.