Duane
Duane is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 72 births. Its best rank was 102nd, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 720.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19592,966 births
- Best rank
- #102in 1933
- Since 1885
- 116,398people given the name
The story in the numbers
115,384 boys have been named Duane in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 2,966 births — 0.14% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 72 births in 2024, against 2,966 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 21%. It has spent 103 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,014 girls have also been given it, 0.87% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Duane | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 35 | |
| 1900s | 104 | |
| 1910s | 1,554 | |
| 1920s | 8,565 | |
| 1930s | 16,855 | |
| 1940s | 17,071 | |
| 1950s | 24,143 | |
| 1960s | 23,752 | |
| 1970s | 12,404 | |
| 1980s | 5,247 | |
| 1990s | 2,615 | |
| 2000s | 1,582 | |
| 2010s | 1,075 | |
| 2020s | 372 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Duane was the 126th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Duane
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dwainpeak 1959
- Dwainepeak 1959
- Duwaynepeak 1960
- Kennithpeak 1956
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Dwanepeak 1963
- Derylpeak 1957
- Herbiepeak 1959
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.