Duaine
Duaine was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 1,052 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Duaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Duaine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,230, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1932, the peak
Duaine peaked in 1932, when 35 boys were given it, #1,145 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #8,230 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,797 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,488 | 3.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,845 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,530 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,963 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,730 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,558 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,499 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,300 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #5,308 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,018 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,589 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,654 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,917 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,481 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,059 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,254 | 7.3 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,330 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,238 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,136 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 20 | #1,822 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,446 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,241 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,473 | 13.6 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,048 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,973 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,847 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,164 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 24 | #1,565 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 22 | #1,645 | 11.2 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,765 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,162 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,899 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,839 | 9.6 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,620 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,802 | 9.8 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,611 | 12.3 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,421 | 16.3 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,106 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,719 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,752 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,499 | 17.1 |
| 1940 | 15 | #1,827 | 12.9 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,331 | 22.6 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,576 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,169 | 30.0 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,367 | 23.1 |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,276 | 26.9 |
| 1934 | 30 | #1,223 | 29.1 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,339 | 25.2 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,145 | 33.5 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,221 | 30.8 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,614 | 19.1 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,689 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,661 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,893 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,926 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 19 | #1,822 | 17.0 |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,153 | 13.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,013 | 8.2 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,856 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,410 | 11.8 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,644 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,500 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,837 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Duaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Duaine has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Duaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Duaine, and how old are they?
An estimated 447 Americans named Duaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 57 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 539 people named Duaine (9 women and girls, 530 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 551 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 118,058 babies since 1880, Duaine is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 66 babies recorded by SSA was a Duaine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Duaine
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Duaine and names like it
- Compare Duaine and DuaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDuaine peaked in 1932.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Duaine since 1910.
- The top names of 1932The year the most babies were named Duaine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Duaine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.