Durie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Durie’, Fife, meaning ‘(place) by the stream’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdʊɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Durie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 146K
- USUnited States1 in 959K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Person from Durie’, Fife, meaning ‘(place) by the stream’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Durie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Durie | 104 |
| US United States | 347 | 1 in 959K | 387 | Durie | 178 |
| AU Australia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Durie | 79 |
| FR France | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 249K | 38 | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Durie | 63 |
| BE Belgium | 131 | 1 in 89K | 131 | Durie | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Durie | 27 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Andrew Durieb. 1401GBScottish bishop
- Dorothy Duryb. 1613IEnot in their usual nameAnglo-Irish writer on education (c. 1613-1664)
- Dave Durieb. 1931GBEnglish footballer (1931-2016)
- Mason Durieb. 1938NZNew Zealand psychiatrist and professor of Māori studies
- Eddie Durieb. 1940NZNew Zealand judge
- David Durieb. 1944GBBritish civil servant
- Bruce Durieb. 1954GBBritish writer and academic
- Mark Durieb. 1958AUAustralian linguist and Anglican priest
- Jo Durieb. 1960GBBritish tennis player
- Gordon Durieb. 1965GBScottish footballer (born 1965)
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 387 | #56,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 362 | #53,556 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 347 | #58,481 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 131 | #12,395 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 22 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Durie mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Durie’, Fife, meaning ‘(place) by the stream’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Durie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʊɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Durie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 452 people named Durie in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled durie.
- How common is the name Durie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 347 people named Durie in 2010, about 1 in 959 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Durie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/durieThe 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, “Durie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.