Duriel
Duriel was last recorded in 2017, when 8 babies were given it; 261 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Duriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Duriel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,067, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
36 babies in 1981, the peak
Duriel peaked in 1981, when 36 boys were given it, #1,643 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 | #9,067 | 4.3 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,107 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,155 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,311 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,392 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,328 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,369 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,604 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,329 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,569 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 18 | #2,744 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,324 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,033 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 28 | #1,941 | 15.4 |
| 1981 | 36 | #1,643 | 20.1 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,642 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 22 | #2,254 | 12.8 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,592 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,928 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,802 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Duriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Duriel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Duriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Duriel, and how old are they?
An estimated 245 Americans named Duriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 40 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 246 people named Duriel (6 women and girls, 240 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 249 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,963 babies since 1880, Duriel is the third most given (6.6% 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.
More about Duriel and names like it
- Compare Duriel and DurrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDuriel peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Duriel since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Duriel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Duriel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.