Durante
Durante is both an Italian masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Italian
Meaning & Origin of Durante
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Durante is both an Italian masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Italian
The Story of Durante
Durante first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1972, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1991: 9 births, good for #5,519 nationwide. About 40% of every Durante on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Durante last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 121 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Durante
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Names that sound like Durante
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About the name Durante
Durante is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 121 births in the dataset. Durante's peak popularity came in 1991 when it ranked #5,519. Use the chart and map above to compare Durante's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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