Duran
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: third-person plural present indicative of durar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/duɾan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 97th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 245(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 269
- BOBolivia≈1 in 346
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- #378 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- 1 in 245 (inferred from the name graph)
≈90,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Durán in CR Costa Rica.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person plural present indicative of durar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Duran is read(measured from records)
Duran is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish60%
third-person plural present indicative of durar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duran in English.
- Turkish9.4%
1. Yaşayan, varlığını sürdüren. 2. Dağ yolu. 3. Kalan. 4. Dingin, sakin, huzurlu.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duran counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #97 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 908 | — | Duran | 110 |
| US United States | #409 | 89,401 | 1 in 3.7K | 89K | Duran | 482 |
| VE Venezuela | #71 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 408 | — | Duran | 93 |
| CO Colombia | #94 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 743 | 51 | Duran | 177 |
| ES Spain | #75 | 55,665 | 1 in 899 | 56K | Duran | 203 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #34 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 269 | — | Duran | 77 |
| BO Bolivia | #179 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 346 | — | Duran | 76 |
| CR Costa Rica | #347 | 20,778 | 1 in 245 | 21K | Durán | 91 |
| SV El Salvador | #73 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 440 | — | Duran | 67 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Duran is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
perseverante, duro; strenuous
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, forma reduzida de Durante ou Durando
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, männl. Vom. türkischer Herkunft (zu türk, durmak »bleiben«: »einer, der bleibt«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, Duran. Before 1270.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Michel Duranb. 1900FRFrench actor and screenwriter (1900–1994)
- Larry Duranb. 1925USAmerican actor (1925-2002)
- Jacob Duranb. 1951USAmerican cutman
- Josep Antoni Duran i Lleidab. 1952ESSpanish politician
- Joan Plazab. 1963ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball head coach
- Enric Duranb. 1976ESCatalan activist of de-growth
- Güzide Duranb. 1981TRTurkish fashion model (born 1980)
- Biel Duránb. 1984ESCatalan actor
- Andrea Duranb. 1984USsoftball player
- Roxane Duranb. 1993FRFrench actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 75 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 89K | #349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 88K | #345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 68K | #434 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 56K | #81 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 56K | #81 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 21K | #101 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 51 | #65 |
Reference works 9
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Duran mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of durar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Duran?
- A machine transcription gives /duɾan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Duran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 90 thousand people named Duran in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duran.
- Where is Duran most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Duran is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 245 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Duran?
- In the United States, the national register counted 89,401 people named Duran in 2010, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Duran compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Duran is the 97th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Duran?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duranThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Duran” — the 97th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.