Durga
Origin
Telugu
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
the unassailable goddess (Sanskrit); for Telugu families she is Kanaka Durga of Vijayawada, the guardian deity of the Krishna delta, which keeps the name devotionally alive across generations
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Durga has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Durga deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Durga truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Durga fits with your family’s names and surname.
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