Duvall

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Duvall has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 1930. 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 1981, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Duvall, 2015

1 in 740,000

Duvall over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Duvall had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Duvall 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Duvall. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Duvalls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Duvall was born before 1984 — so the typical Duvall is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
72
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Duvall 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (9)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,150
1930

Spellings of Duvall

Duvall is not the most common spelling — Durell is, with 74.1% against Duvall's 3.3%.

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.

Duvall around the world

Where Duvall 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
    2000–2000
    #3,036
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Duvall by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,150
1930
Peak year
1981
9 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Duvall

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Sibling names for Duvall

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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