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Durante

Boy · Italian

Durante

Say it: doo-RAN-teh

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Meaning

From Italian durante 'enduring, lasting'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

024618801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1991per million babies of that sex
  • 116 babies given this name since 1972
  • At its height in 1991, about 1 in 224,400 boys
  • Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450

Used by

Italian

Famous bearers

  • Dante Alighieri, whose baptismal name was Durante

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Where this comes from

  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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