Durán
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/d̪uɾan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Durán 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Durán. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
- 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)
Locally spelled Duran in US United States, TR Türkiye, VE Venezuela and 5 more.
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Durán. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Sources 6
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Durán 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- César Mendoza Duránb. 1918CLChilean Military (1918-1996)
- Luisa Duránb. 1941CLformer First Lady of Chile
- Jaime Fillolb. 1946CLnot in their usual nameChilean tennis player (born 1946)
- Roberto Duránb. 1951ARPanamanian boxer
- Fernando Sanzb. 1974ESnot in their usual nameSpanish former footballer
- Salvador Duránb. 1985MXMexican racing driver
- Hugo Gonzálezb. 1990MXnot in their usual nameMexican association football player
- Marlos Morenob. 1996COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Pablo Duránb. 2001ESGalician footballer
- Jhon Duránb. 2003COColombian footballer
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 5 | #111 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Durán mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Durán. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 4 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Durán?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪uɾan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Durán?
- In the etymology graph, Durante is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Durán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 90 thousand people named Durán in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duran.
- Where is Durán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Durán 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 Durán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 89,401 people named Durán in 2010, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Durán compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Durán is the 97th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dur%C3%A1nThe 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, “Durán” — the 97th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.