Durga

Girls' name

Unattainable, unassailable

Durga has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Durga, 2024

1 in 669,000

Durga over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Durga: meaning, origin, and history

Unattainable, unassailable

Sanskrit

What Durga means

Durga means “unattainable, unassailable”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Durga is used in Hinduism, Hindi, Nepali and Telugu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd̪uɽ.ɡɑː/, /ˈdʊɹ.ɡə/ and /ˈdʊə.ɡə/ for Durga.

Origin, language, and formation

Durga is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Durga comes through Sanskrit दुर्गा.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Durga is pronounced /ˈdʊɹ.ɡə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 68 girls were recorded with the name Durga between 2000 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #11,703 in 2006.

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 Durga?

Durga had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Durga 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Durga. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Durgas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Durga was born before 2013 — so the typical Durga is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 68; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Durga 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 2006 (9)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,703; 2006

Spellings of Durga

Durga is not the most common spelling — Dora is, with 51.8% against Durga's 0.03%.

Dora51.8%105,930
Darla21.4%43,667
Dara6.7%13,692
Lura4.7%9,550
Daria4.4%9,063
Aura2.5%5,016
Dua0.73%1,485
Eura0.71%1,453

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.

Durga around the world

Where Durga 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
2013–2025
#5,927
in 2025
South Australia
2011–2011
#840
in 2011

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.

Durga 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: —
Best rank ever: #11,703; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 9 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 68
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Durga

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

Durva Duru Durene Virga Jorga Durenda Dureen Dura Verga Durah Durelle Durinda Marga Georga Duretta Durrani Walburga Durriyah Durlene Duriyah Durdona

Sibling names for Durga

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Oswaldo Nathen Britton Mauro

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