Durand — boys' name
1,060 babies named Durand in U.S. Social Security records since 1913, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Durand was born in this single decade.
40 babies were named Durand in 1972 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Durand
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,060 babies named Durand between 1913 and 2015, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Durand currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 40 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Durand performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 257 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Durand shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Durand in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Durand in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,060 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Durand at a glance
Last recorded 2015Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Durand popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–1913
- Peak year (1972)
- 40
- Annual births at peak — across 103 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2015.
1,060 total births across 103 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1972 with 40 births in a single year.
Durand by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 257 births that decade — 24% of Durand's all-time total
Durand decade highlights
- Peak decade 257 births
- Runner-up 174 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Durand's strongest decade
257 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Durand by state
Where Durand concentrates geographically — total births since 1913
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Michigan | | 10 | 0.9% |
10 of 1,060 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Michigan 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Michigan accounts for 0.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1913–2015 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.