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Duran

#7,316 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Duran has been given to 1,537 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #7,316 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1984, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Duran, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Duran: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Duran means

Duran is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Duran is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,537 boys were recorded with the name Duran between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1984; its best national rank was #1,084 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,051 in 2020 to #7,316 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,193 in 2015 to #7,316 in 2025.

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 Duran?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,316
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Duran 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 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Duran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Durans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Duran was born before 1988 — so the typical Duran is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,510
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (504).

Is Duran 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
−1,265
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−123
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.2%
Peak was 1984 (68)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,084
1984

Spellings of Duran

Duran is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 29.3% against Duran's 0.11%.

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 Duran is used

Across 1910–2025, Duran was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 474,461 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

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. Duran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Duran around the world

Where Duran 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
    1997–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    1978–2022
    #6,964
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2004–2004
    #2,269
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1983–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Duran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,316
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,265
Best rank ever
#1,084
1984
Peak year
1984
68 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,537
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Duran

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

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Sibling names for Duran

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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