Duru
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in England and Wales.
Duru by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Duru. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 13 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Duru
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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