Durward
Recorded 1884–1991 · United States
Durward was most popular in 1916, when 118 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,136 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,873 people named Durward.
Durward over time
How old is the name Durward?
Durward first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1884, which makes it about 141 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 87 of the 142 years since. It was last recorded in 1991.
How many people are named Durward?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,873 American births named Durward between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 586 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Durward in 2025?
Durward was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Durward a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Durward is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,873 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Durward?
Roughly 586 Americans named Durward are alive today — 20% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 72 years old, and half are between 62 and 81.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Durward is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org