Duayne
Duayne was last recorded in 1988, when 7 babies were given it; 279 Americans have been recorded with it between 1927 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Duayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Duayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,938, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1960, the peak
Duayne peaked in 1960, when 17 boys were given it, #1,995 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 7 | #5,938 | 3.7 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,526 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,980 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,106 | 4.3 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,599 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,127 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,819 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,053 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,316 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,662 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 16 | #2,056 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,340 | 6.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,221 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,172 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 17 | #1,995 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,329 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,083 | 3.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,602 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,529 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,539 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,110 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,495 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,404 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,164 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,973 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,440 | 6.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,936 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,635 | 4.1 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,253 | 5.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,817 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,787 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,495 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,147 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,823 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,886 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Duayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Duayne has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Duayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Duayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 175 Americans named Duayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 59 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 282 people named Duayne (7 women and girls, 275 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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, Duayne is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 66 babies recorded by SSA was a Duayne (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 Duayne
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1920-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Les | 3,480 |
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 Duayne and names like it
- Compare Duayne and DuaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDuayne peaked in 1960.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Duayne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Duayne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.