Durand
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Soit de (Le) Durand, nom de plusieurs localités en France, ou du latin Dūrandus, de dūrāre « durer, endurer »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dyʀɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Durand is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 863(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K
- CACanada≈1 in 11K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 377 (measured from records)
- 1 in 166 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Soit de (Le) Durand, nom de plusieurs localités en France, ou du latin Dūrandus, de dūrāre « durer, endurer ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Durand is read(measured from records)
Durand 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.
- French56%
Soit de (Le) Durand, nom de plusieurs localités en France, ou du latin Dūrandus, de dūrāre « durer, endurer ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- Spanish26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Durand in Spanish.
- English14%
city. MI; city. WI
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Durand 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #7 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 863 | 9K | Durand | 377 |
| CN China | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Durand | 5 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Durand | 49 |
| US United States | — | 8,729 | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Durand | 310 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,503 | 1 in 13K | 3.5K | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Durand | 151 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 607 | 1 in 5.6K | 607 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 446 | 1 in 166 | 446 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
- Peter Durandb. 1766GBBritish merchant
- Asher Brown Durandb. 1796USAmerican painter and engraver (1796-1886)
- Auguste Durandb. 1830FRFrench organist and music publisher
- Mortimer Durandb. 1850GBBritish diplomat (1850-1924)
- Marguerite Durandb. 1864FRFrench actress and journalist, editor (1864–1936)
- Luigi Durand de la Penneb. 1914ITItalian admiral (1914-1992)
- Gilbert Durandb. 1921FRFrench academic (1921–2012)
- Claude Durandb. 1938FRFrench publisher and translator
- Jean-Philippe Durandb. 1960FRFrench association football player
- Kevin Durandb. 1974CACanadian actor
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 47 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 12K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 9.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9.3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.7K | #4,070 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.6K | #3,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8K | #4,096 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Durand?
- A machine transcription gives /dyʀɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Durand mean?
- Recorded meaning: Soit de (Le) Durand, nom de plusieurs localités en France, ou du latin Dūrandus, de dūrāre « durer, endurer ».
- What are other forms of the name Durand?
- In the etymology graph, Durante is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Durand have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Durand in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled durand.
- Where is Durand most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Durand is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 166 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Durand?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,729 people named Durand in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
- How common is Durand compared with other names?
- In France, Durand is the 7th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Durand?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/durandThe 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, “Durand” — the 7th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.