Duran
Duran was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,316 among boys’ names; 1,537 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Duran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 24 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Duran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Duran mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Duran is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Duran?
#7,316 among boys’ names, 2025
Duran fell from #7,193 in 2015 to #7,316 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 6.4 per million.
68 babies in 1984, the peak
Duran peaked in 1984, when 68 boys were given it, #1,084 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,316 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,010 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,208 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,225 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,051 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,103 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,255 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,117 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,832 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,193 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #4,581 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,229 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,304 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,695 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,559 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,067 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,962 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,151 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,705 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,233 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,461 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,322 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,697 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 24 | #3,531 | 12.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,805 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,731 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,737 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,482 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,439 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,946 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,455 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,059 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,006 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 38 | #1,986 | 18.8 |
| 1990 | 32 | #2,223 | 15.6 |
| 1989 | 57 | #1,455 | 28.5 |
| 1988 | 51 | #1,484 | 26.6 |
| 1987 | 54 | #1,371 | 28.9 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,270 | 31.5 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,217 | 33.0 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,084 | 37.7 |
| 1983 | 49 | #1,330 | 27.3 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,572 | 21.5 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,055 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,501 | 23.0 |
| 1979 | 29 | #1,878 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 36 | #1,579 | 21.9 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,226 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,985 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,500 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,200 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,865 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,590 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,352 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,079 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,183 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,517 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,050 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,111 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,572 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,718 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,352 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,347 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,098 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,200 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,333 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,638 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,822 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #2,975 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,728 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,880 | 2.7 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,637 | 4.1 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,789 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,831 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,856 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Duran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Duran has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Duran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Duran, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,537 Americans ever recorded as Duran. The median Duran alive today is 37 years old; half are between 24 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,396 people named Duran (79 women and girls, 1,317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,400 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 87 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 202 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 650 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 332 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 144 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,122 babies since 1880, Duran is the most given (72% of them).
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 Duran
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 Duran and names like it
- Compare Duran and DuronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDuran peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Duran since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Duran: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Duran.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Duran alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.