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Durand vs Duron

American parents have registered 1,060 Durands since 1880, against 585 Durons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Durand Duron

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, Durand for 63 years and Duron for 23 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Durand Duron
Total US births 1,060585
Most in one year 4024
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 860550
Median age today 4835
Peak year 19721991
Best rank 1,327th boys2,753rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19131961
Girls / boys 0 / 1,0600 / 585

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 Durands alive today are over 48; half the Durons are over 35. That is 13 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: Durand and Duron.