Duane
About 116,456 American babies have been named Duane since 1885, most of them around 1959. In 2025 it ranked 2,572nd. About 68,000 Duanes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Duane boys named Duane
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 116,456
- Estimated living today
- 68,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 126th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,572nd
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 1,014 / 115,442
How old the living Duanes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 116,456 babies given the name since 1885, about 68,000 are alive — 59 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 29,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Duanes
- Duane Allman (1946–1971)American guitarist
- Duane Eddy (1938–2024)American guitarist
- Duane Jones (1937–1988)American actor
- Duane G. Carey (born 1957)American Air Force lieutenant colonel and astronaut
- Duane Michals (1932–2026)American photographer
- Duane Swanson (1913–2000)basketball player
- Duane Hanson (1925–1996)American sculptor
- Duane Vermeulen (born 1986)South African rugby union footballer
People named Duane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Duane is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Duane is most concentrated in North Dakota (8.4×), South Dakota (6.2×), Iowa (4.1×), Minnesota (4.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular boys’ names the year Duane peaked:
Duane elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Duane | 155 | 853rd |
| France boys | Duane | 150 | 1,391st |
| Ireland boys | Duane | 34 | 268th |
| Scotland boys | Duane | 22 | 209th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Duane among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Duane | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Duane against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.