Duwayne
3,601 recorded births · active 1916–2017
Compare Duwayne →Living-age distribution
The median living Duwayne is 62. If you meet a Duwayne, there's about a 70% chance they're between 39 and 78 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Duwayne: 1935. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Duwayne is almost always given to male babies — 100% male.
Rarity
Duwayne ranks #5,218 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Duwaynes are 1.6x more common in the Midwest than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Duwayne's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Duwayne's modeled peak was #1,498 in 1935 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Duwayne hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2017 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Duwayne isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Duwayne enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.