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Duarte

Boys' name

Happiness, prosperity + guard, through Edward

Duarte has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1970, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Duarte, 1990

1 in 790,000

Duarte over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Duarte: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness, prosperity + guard, through Edward

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Duarte means

Duarte belongs to the name family reached through Duarte → Edward → Ēadweard. Its meaning is “happiness, prosperity + guard”.

Origin, language, and formation

Duarte is used in Portuguese.

Duarte comes through Middle English Edward.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edward, Eduardo and Ēadweard.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Duarte is pronounced /duˈaʁ.t͡ʃi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Duarte between 1970 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1970; its best national rank was #4,911 in 1970.

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 Duarte?

Duarte 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 790,000
5 of 3,949,959 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
547,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Duarte sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Duarte. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Duartes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Duarte was born before 1984 — so the typical Duarte is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Duarte 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (5)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,911
1970

Spellings of Duarte

Duarte is not the most common spelling — Duane is, with 66.5% against Duarte's 0.01%.

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.

Duarte around the world

Where Duarte 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
    2005–2024
    #2,922
    in 2024
  • France
    1968–2025
    #2,238
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Duarte by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,911
1970
Peak year
1970
5 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Duarte

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

DualDuainDuanneDuanteDuayneRoberteDamarteMarteDuaineDuardDuanDuane

Sibling names for Duarte

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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