Durward
Durward was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 2,873 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Durward by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Durward?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,563, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
118 babies in 1916, the peak
Durward peaked in 1916, when 118 boys were given it, #524 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #8,563 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,237 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,257 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 8 | #3,601 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,128 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #2,611 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,162 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #1,941 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,863 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,342 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,773 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,169 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,925 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,490 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 20 | #1,803 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 18 | #1,899 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,380 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 22 | #1,641 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,435 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #1,632 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #1,742 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,504 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,306 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,263 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,238 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,146 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 33 | #1,142 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,122 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,175 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 41 | #1,063 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,054 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,072 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,073 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 28 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 44 | #944 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,102 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 38 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 49 | #900 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 43 | #965 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 49 | #928 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 48 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,057 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 65 | #802 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 48 | #993 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 66 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 61 | #845 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 90 | #673 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 77 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 90 | #677 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 95 | #659 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 107 | #612 | 0.10 |
| 1920 | 94 | #656 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 99 | #609 | 0.10 |
| 1918 | 94 | #634 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 103 | #587 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 118 | #524 | 0.13 |
| 1915 | 101 | #562 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 71 | #600 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 45 | #670 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 59 | #510 | 0.14 |
| 1911 | 23 | #655 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 11 | #996 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 15 | #728 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 15 | #692 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 11 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 9 | #869 | 0.07 |
| 1905 | 9 | #856 | 0.07 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,099 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 8 | #859 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 9 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1894 | 7 | #885 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 7 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,011 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,044 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Durward a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Durward has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Durward: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Durward, and how old are they?
An estimated 550 Americans named Durward and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 62 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 737 people named Durward (5 women and girls, 732 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above 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).
Where are babies named Durward born?
The states with the most babies named Durward are Texas, Oklahoma and Illinois, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 272 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Oklahoma | 51 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 50 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 49 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 38 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 35 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Durward is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Durward is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Durward with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Durward
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 Durward and names like it
- Compare Durward and VergilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDurward peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Durward since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Durward.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Durward alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.