Durwood
Durwood was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 2,688 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Durwood by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Durwood?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,684, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 1943, the peak
Durwood peaked in 1943, when 72 boys were given it, #769 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #9,684 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,643 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,331 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,780 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,634 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,988 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,460 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,281 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,111 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,728 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 13 | #2,846 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,796 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,710 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,205 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,423 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,824 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,482 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 17 | #1,922 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 24 | #1,591 | 13.5 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,876 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,057 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 23 | #1,670 | 11.3 |
| 1962 | 25 | #1,593 | 12.1 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,329 | 16.9 |
| 1960 | 23 | #1,703 | 10.8 |
| 1959 | 25 | #1,600 | 11.7 |
| 1958 | 27 | #1,513 | 12.7 |
| 1957 | 51 | #1,066 | 23.6 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,364 | 15.1 |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,171 | 19.9 |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,124 | 21.6 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,410 | 14.7 |
| 1952 | 53 | #984 | 27.3 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,084 | 23.4 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,322 | 16.8 |
| 1949 | 23 | #1,550 | 13.0 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,111 | 23.4 |
| 1947 | 54 | #969 | 29.5 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,031 | 27.1 |
| 1945 | 42 | #987 | 31.2 |
| 1944 | 69 | #749 | 50.6 |
| 1943 | 72 | #769 | 50.4 |
| 1942 | 49 | #948 | 35.5 |
| 1941 | 43 | #976 | 35.0 |
| 1940 | 52 | #875 | 44.9 |
| 1939 | 52 | #847 | 47.0 |
| 1938 | 61 | #787 | 55.0 |
| 1937 | 59 | #803 | 55.3 |
| 1936 | 59 | #799 | 56.9 |
| 1935 | 56 | #836 | 53.8 |
| 1934 | 59 | #813 | 57.1 |
| 1933 | 48 | #900 | 48.4 |
| 1932 | 61 | #816 | 58.4 |
| 1931 | 63 | #789 | 60.6 |
| 1930 | 48 | #981 | 43.7 |
| 1929 | 62 | #827 | 57.6 |
| 1928 | 54 | #917 | 48.8 |
| 1927 | 46 | #1,028 | 40.8 |
| 1926 | 60 | #861 | 54.0 |
| 1925 | 48 | #988 | 43.0 |
| 1924 | 63 | #865 | 55.6 |
| 1923 | 69 | #807 | 63.0 |
| 1922 | 53 | #963 | 48.7 |
| 1921 | 63 | #877 | 57.2 |
| 1920 | 56 | #923 | 52.6 |
| 1919 | 55 | #900 | 56.1 |
| 1918 | 52 | #921 | 51.3 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,043 | 43.2 |
| 1916 | 50 | #889 | 56.2 |
| 1915 | 55 | #825 | 64.8 |
| 1914 | 32 | #989 | 48.9 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,515 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,038 | 46.5 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,309 | 35.4 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,185 | 42.7 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,257 | 38.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Durwood a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Durwood has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Durwood: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Durwood, and how old are they?
An estimated 814 Americans named Durwood and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% 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 965 people named Durwood (1 woman or girl, 964 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,052 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% 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).
Where are babies named Durwood born?
The states with the most babies named Durwood are North Carolina, Texas and New York, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 498 | not ranked | 5.7× |
| Texas | 305 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 49 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 33 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Mississippi | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Durwood is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Durwood is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 5.7 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 Durwood 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 Durwood
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 Durwood and names like it
- Compare Durwood and VerlinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDurwood peaked in 1943.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Durwood since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Durwood.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Durwood alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.