girls:
1k births since 1914
#4702 (18th percentile)
boys:
115.3k births since 1885
#275 (94th percentile)
overall:
116.3k births since 1885
#610 (92nd percentile)
The name Duane is the #610 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 116,324 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 92.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #275 (94.0% percentile) for all time with 115,310 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #4,702 (17.7% percentile) for all time with 1,014 births since 1914.
Duane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Duane is available in 131 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 67 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Duane has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Duane reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 80.9% percentile (ranked #126) with 1,368 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 1,730 births per million (ranked 80.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1963, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Duane ranks #846 for boys (7.1% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 2.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Duane reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #556) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 28 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Duane".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Duane. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.3% confident that Duane is pronounced as dwayn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DUE-ayn, at 23.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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