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Duana

Girls' name

Feminine form of Duane

Duana has been given to 564 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1977, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Duana, 1990

1 in 658,000

Duana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Duana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Duane

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Duana means

Duana is a feminine form of Duane.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Duana is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Duana → Duane. The family’s meaning is “black, dark”, recorded in English with the source elements dubh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Duane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 564 girls were recorded with the name Duana between 1946 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,262 in 1964.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Duana?

Duana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990
1 in 658,000
6 of 3,949,959 births
Among girls only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
456,318 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Duana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 456,318 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Duana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Duanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Duana was born before 1969 — so the typical Duana is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
548
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (201).

Is Duana 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (31)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,262
1964

Spellings of Duana

Duana is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 26.5% against Duana's 0.02%.

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.

Duana around the world

Where Duana 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 & Wales
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1969–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Duana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,262
1964
Peak year
1977
31 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
564
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Duana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DuaaMyanaZianaAvanaOhanaMianaNyanaAmanaXianaVianaLyanaDuaneEyanaZyanaNianaMoanaEvanaAdanaHelanaVanaAnjanaEllanaEldanaSiana

Sibling names for Duana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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