Durrel
Durrel was last recorded in 1999, when 5 babies were given it; 55 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Durrel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Durrel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,361, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1987, the peak
Durrel peaked in 1987, when 11 boys were given it, #4,037 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #10,361 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,489 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,241 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,037 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,570 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,424 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,595 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #6,121 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Durrel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Durrel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Durrel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Durrel, and how old are they?
An estimated 52 Americans named Durrel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 120 people named Durrel (0 women and girls, 120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 53 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Durrel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Durrel?
Durrel is a less common spelling of Durrell: SSA has recorded 55 Durrel and 1,905 Durrell since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,963 babies since 1880, Durrel is the fourth most given (1.4% 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 Durrel
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 Durrel and names like it
- Compare Durrel and DurrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDurrel peaked in 1987.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Durrel.
- Names starting with DMost given first.