Durwood
Durwood is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 749th, in 1944.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194372 births
- Best rank
- #749in 1944
- Since 1908
- 2,688people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,688 boys have been named Durwood in the United States since 1908, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1943, with 72 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 72 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Durwood | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 13 | |
| 1910s | 325 | |
| 1920s | 574 | |
| 1930s | 566 | |
| 1940s | 489 | |
| 1950s | 376 | |
| 1960s | 215 | |
| 1970s | 102 | |
| 1980s | 23 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1943, its biggest year
Durwood was the 770th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1943 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1943.
Names that rose and fell with Durwood
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Verlinpeak 1929
- Laddiepeak 1919
- Thermanpeak 1919
- Thurmonpeak 1930
- Dormanpeak 1928
- Hoylepeak 1925
- Burnellpeak 1920
- Verlepeak 1920
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.