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Duaa vs Duana

American parents have registered 664 Duaas since 1880, against 564 Duanas. Duaa is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Duaa against Duana, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Duaa Duana

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 77 years in which either name was published, Duana for 44 years and Duaa for 33 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Duaa Duana
Total US births 664564
Most in one year 3031
Babies in 2025 30under 5
Estimated living today 660500
Median age today 1455
Peak year 20251977
Best rank 4,546th girls2,666th girls
Rank in 2025 4,546thunranked
First recorded 19821946
Girls / boys 664 / 0564 / 0

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 Duanas alive today are over 55; half the Duaas are over 14. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Duaa Duana
England and Wales 9263

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 Duana.