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The DURANT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,699 2811 0.004 43
United States (1880 census) 2,062 2908 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +9637 +97 0 +2
Other Countries
Australia 315 4975 0.002 19
United Kingdom 1,321 4165 0.003 29
Top States for DURANT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,218 1624 0.006 64
South Carolina 1,163 603 0.029 290
Florida 815 2744 0.005 51
California 787 4095 0.002 23
Massachusetts 748 1305 0.012 118
Top States for DURANT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,163 603 0.029 290
New Hampshire 216 975 0.017 175
Maine 154 1670 0.012 121
Massachusetts 748 1305 0.012 118
Washington DC 49 1346 0.009 86

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DURANT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DURANT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DURANT in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DURANT by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DURANT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DURANT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DURANT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DURANT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 532 4.55
Mixed Race 310 2.65
Native American/Alaskan 259 2.21
Asian/Pacific 50 0.43
White (Caucasian) 6,334 54.14
Black/African American 4,215 36.03

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DURANT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DURANT in historical publications

From the Latin name Durandus, enduring, strong, inured to hardships, from duro, to harden, to inure to hardships, to make strong.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DURANT. DURAND. See Di.rrant.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DURANT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DURANT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DURANT

The following words are slight variants of DURANT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.