Dura
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dura has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1918, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Dura, 1942
1 in 546,000
Dura 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Dura?
Dura had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1942, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1942
- 1 in 546,000
- 5 of 2,731,825 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 270,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1942
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 378,713 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dura sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1942 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 378,713 children born in 1942 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Duras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dura was born before 1922 — so the typical Dura is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 37.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (92).
Is Dura 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 1918 (17)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.4% average annual change
Spellings of Dura
Dura is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 20.3% against Dura'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.
Where Dura is used
Across 1910–2025, Dura was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 682,681 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Dura has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dura around the world
Where Dura 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.
- South Australia1995–1995#533in 1995
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Dura by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dura
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dura
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.