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Duran vs Durwin

American parents have registered 1,537 Durans since 1880, against 632 Durwins. Duran is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Duran against Durwin, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Duran Durwin

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 86 years in which either name was published, Duran for 54 years and Durwin for 32 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Duran Durwin
Total US births 1,537632
Most in one year 6836
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 1,400490
Median age today 3660
Peak year 19841956
Best rank 1,084th boys1,285th boys
Rank in 2025 7,194thunranked
First recorded 19251934
Girls / boys 0 / 1,5370 / 632

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 Durwins alive today are over 60; half the Durans are over 36. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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