Durl
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Durl has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1926, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Durl, 1949
1 in 697,000
Durl 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Durl?
Durl had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1949, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1949
- 1 in 697,000
- 5 of 3,484,085 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1949
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 482,998 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Durl sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1949 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 482,998 children born in 1949 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Durl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Durls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Durl was born before 1927 — so the typical Durl is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 54.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Durl 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1926 (9)
- Years since peak
- 99
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 62.2% average annual change
Spellings of Durl
Durl is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 44.0% against Durl'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.
Durl by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Durl
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Durl
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.