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Duaa vs Duaine

American parents have registered 1,052 Duaines since 1880, against 664 Duaas. But in 2025 it was Duaa that was commoner, 30 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Duaa against Duaine, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Duaa Duaine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 99 years in which either name was published, Duaine for 65 years and Duaa for 34 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Duaa Duaine
Total US births 6641,052
Most in one year 3035
Babies in 2025 30under 5
Estimated living today 660460
Median age today 1466
Peak year 20251932
Best rank 4,546th girls1,141st boys
Rank in 2025 4,546thunranked
First recorded 19821918
Girls / boys 664 / 00 / 1,052

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Duaines alive today are over 66; half the Duaas are over 14. That is 52 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Duaa Duaine
England and Wales 9267

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Duaa and Duaine.