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Duron vs Durwood

American parents have registered 2,688 Durwoods since 1880, against 585 Durons. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Duron Durwood

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 108 years in which either name was published, Durwood for 62 years and Duron for 46 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Duron Durwood
Total US births 5852,688
Most in one year 2472
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 550850
Median age today 3571
Peak year 19911943
Best rank 2,753rd boys768th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19611908
Girls / boys 0 / 5850 / 2,688

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 Durwoods alive today are over 71; half the Durons are over 35. That is 36 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: Duron and Durwood.