Durham
#11,014 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Durham has been given to 309 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #11,014 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Durham, 2025
1 in 553,000
Durham 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Durham?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,014
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Durham sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Durham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Durhams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Durham was born before 2009 — so the typical Durham is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 29.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 224
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (92).
Is Durham 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
- −3,106
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,558
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.6%
- Peak was 2009 (19)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.4% average annual change
Spellings of Durham
Durham is not the most common spelling — Arham is, with 47.6% against Durham's 6.7%.
Durham by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Durham
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Durham
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.