Durwood
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Durwood has been given to 2,688 babies in the U.S. since 1908. 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 1943, with 72 recorded.
Babies named Durwood, 1997
1 in 725,000
Durwood 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Durwood?
Durwood had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,624,676 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 377,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,488 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Durwood sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Durwood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Durwoods were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Durwood was born before 1937 — so the typical Durwood is around 88 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 721
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (574).
Is Durwood 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 1943 (72)
- Years since peak
- 82
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.5% average annual change
Spellings of Durwood
Durwood is not the most common spelling — Norwood is, with 30.7% against Durwood's 28.3%.
Where Durwood is used
Across 1910–2025, Durwood was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 71,109 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 10,000
- 2Texas1 in 50,000
- 3Alabama1 in 100,000
- 4Georgia1 in 100,000
- 5Maine1 in 100,000
- 6Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 7Virginia1 in 100,000
- 8Florida1 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. Durwood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Durwood by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Durwood
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Durwood
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Durwood, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Durwood
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.