Durell
Durell was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 1,742 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Durell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 31 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Durell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Durell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,086, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
208 babies in 1985, the peak
Durell peaked in 1985, when 208 boys were given it, #606 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #10,086 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,980 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,019 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,050 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,327 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,093 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,220 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,180 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,723 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (102)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 18 | #5,039 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,809 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,626 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,578 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,407 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,593 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,391 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,153 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,634 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,821 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,553 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,634 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,162 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,952 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,301 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,278 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,457 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,247 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,072 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,549 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 40 | #1,923 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,975 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 54 | #1,517 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 59 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,442 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 123 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 208 | #606 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,405 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,435 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 20 | #2,452 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,933 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,142 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,179 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,089 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,143 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,301 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,180 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 17 | #2,068 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,647 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,641 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,730 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,573 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,303 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,447 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,461 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,053 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,644 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,694 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,097 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,569 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,837 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,441 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,441 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,751 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,701 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,540 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,957 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 8 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,927 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,691 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,482 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,054 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,454 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,565 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,208 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,214 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,698 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,165 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,726 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,289 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,467 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,680 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,375 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,940 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Durell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Durell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 102 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Durell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Durell, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 1,742 Americans ever recorded as Durell. The median Durell alive today is 40 years old; half are between 31 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,040 people named Durell (42 women and girls, 998 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,384 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 98 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 168 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 733 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 234 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83 |
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,963 babies since 1880, Durell is the second most given (44% 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 Durell
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 Durell and names like it
- Compare Durell and DurrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDurell peaked in 1985.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Durell since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Durell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Durell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.