Duane is both a given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 for a male

Male

Male refers to the biological sex of an organism, or part of an organism, which produces small mobile gametes, called spermatozoa. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete or ovum, in the process of fertilization...

, and a family name

Duane (surname)

Duane is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:* Anthony Duane , Irish born American congressman, Mayor of New York City and judge* Diane Duane , American science fiction and fantasy author...

. In the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 this spelling is typically associated with white Southerners. It seems to have a convergent etymology from several sources.

Many people may claim that one of the name's origins is the Norman "D'Wain" ("of Wagons") or the Old English version meaning "field" or "meadow". However, Duane is an anglicized version of the Gaelic "Dubhan", meaning little and dark as "Dubh" means dark and "an" is a diminutive suffix.

In the United States, "Duane" became a very popular name around the 1920s and remained one of the 200 most popular names for about 50 years. The similar spelling "Dwayne" was adapted as time went on, most likely because of the also popular name "Wayne". "Dwayne" eventually became the more preferred spelling, especially in the southern U.S. "Duane" still remains a more popular spelling in northern-Midwest states such as Minnesota, Michigan, and North Dakota.

First name

• Duane Allman
  Duane Allman
  Howard Duane Allman was an American guitarist, session musician and the primary co-founder of the southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band...
  
   of the Allman Brothers Band
  The Allman Brothers Band
  The Allman Brothers Band is an American rock/blues band once based in Macon, Georgia. The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman and Gregg Allman , who were supported by Dickey Betts , Berry Oakley , Butch Trucks , and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe"...
  
  
• Duane Bale
• Duane Baron
  Duane Baron
  Duane Baron is a record producer who is credited on albums such as the 1991 Ozzy Osbourne heavy metal album No More Tears and Dream Theater's Awake.-References:...
  
  
• Duane Barry
• Duane Beeson
  Duane Beeson
  Duane Willard Beeson was a World War II fighter pilot and flying ace. He scored 22.08 victories, including 17.3 air-to-air kills,12 of which were scored in the P-47C/D Thunderbolt, and 5.3 of which were scored in the P-51-B Mustang...
  
  
• Duane Benson
  Duane Benson
  Dean Duane Benson is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Hamline University...
  
  
• Duane Bickett
  Duane Bickett
  Duane Clair Bickett is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League...
  
  
• Duane Bobick
  Duane Bobick
  Duane Bobick was a boxer from the United States, who became world amateur heavyweight champion in 1971, and also won the gold medal at the 1971 Pan American Games...
  
  
• Duane Burghard
  Duane Burghard
  Duane Burghard is an American businessman, veteran and politician. Born in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois on July 5th, 1965, Burghard spent the first 11 years of his life in the nearby town of Glenview, Illinois. He was the oldest of three children...
  
  
• Duane R. Bushey
  Duane R. Bushey
  Duane R. Bushey was the seventh Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy. Following graduation from Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Maryland, he enlisted in the United States Navy in June 1962....
  
  
• Duane Butler
  Duane Butler
  Duane Butler is a former National Football League, XFL and Canadian Football League linebacker for the Montreal Alouettes.-College career:Duane Butler attended Illinois State University...
  
  
• Duane Call
• Duane G. Carey
  Duane G. Carey
  Duane Gene "Digger" Carey is an engineer and former NASA Astronaut. Born April 30, 1957, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Married to the former Cheryl Ann Tobritzhofer of Saint Paul, Minnesota. They have two children. He enjoys motorcycle travel, racing motocross, camping, home-schooling his children,...
  
   - American astronaut
• Duane Carter
  Duane Carter
  Duane Carter was an American racecar driver. He raced midget cars, sprint cars, and IndyCars. Carter was born in Fresno, California, and he died in Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
   - American racecar driver
• Duane "Pancho" Carter, Jr.
  Pancho Carter
  Duane "Pancho" Carter, Jr. is a retired American race car driver. He is most famous for his participation in CART races.-Background:...
  
   - American racecar driver
• Duane Clarridge a CIA supervisor known for his role in the Iran-Contra Affair
  Iran-Contra Affair
  The Iran–Contra affair , also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or Iran-Contra-Gate, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior Reagan administration officials and President Reagan secretly facilitated the sale of...
  
  
• Duane Clemons
  Duane Clemons
  Duane Anthony Clemons is a former American Football defensive end who played in the National Football League between 1996 and 2005...
  
  
• Duane Chapman
  Duane Chapman
  Duane Lee "Dog" Chapman, Sr. is an American bounty hunter and a former bail bondsman. He stars in Dog the Bounty Hunter, a weekly reality television program which is broadcast on the A&E Network , FOX8 and GO! , OLN and A&E Network , MAX and RTL II .Chapman claims he has made more than 6,000...
  
   - American bounty hunter
• Duane Lee Chapman II
  Duane Lee Chapman, II
  Duane Lee Chapman II is an American bail bondsman and bounty hunter, most noted for his role on A&E TV's Dog the Bounty Hunter, in which he, along with his father Duane "Dog" Chapman, and various friends and family track down and capture wanted fugitives.-Personal life and career:Duane Lee Chapman...
  
   - American bounty hunter
• Duane Cooper
  Duane Cooper
  Samuel Duane Cooper , is an American former professional basketball player.-Pro career:Cooper was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2nd round of the 1992 NBA Draft. A 6'1" guard, Cooper played two years in the NBA for the Lakers and Phoenix Suns...
  
  
• Duane Courtney
  Duane Courtney
  Duane Jerome Courtney is an English footballer who plays for Tamworth as a defender.Courtney started his career in the youth system of Derby County as a schoolboy and later played for Birmingham City as a trainee. He played for AFC Telford United in the 2004–05 season and after being named their...
  
  
• Duane Denison
  Duane Denison
  Duane Denison is an American guitarist. Denison currently plays for Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, The Jesus Lizard, which he recently re-united with after a 9-year break-up, and Tomahawk. He has played for Firewater. He began his musical career by studying classical guitar. Denison and ex-Ministry...
  
  
• Duane E. Dewey
  Duane E. Dewey
  Duane Edgar Dewey is a former United States Marine and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. Although already wounded, he smothered an exploding grenade with his own body to save the lives of his comrades.-Biography:Dewey was...
  
  
• Duane Eddy
  Duane Eddy
  Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he had a string of hit records, produced by Lee Hazlewood, which were noted for their characteristically "twangy" sound, including "Rebel Rouser", "Peter Gunn", and "Because They're Young"...
  
  
• Duane Elgin
  Duane Elgin
  Duane Elgin is an American author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist.For more than three decades, he has researched and written about the personal and collective dimensions of the human journey, including the topic of "voluntary simplicity", also known as Simple living...
  
   - American author and media activist
• Duane Gill
  Duane Gill
  Duane Gill is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his stint in the World Wrestling Federation as Gillberg, a parody of then-rival promotion World Championship Wrestling's top star Goldberg. During his tenure in the WWF, Gill became a one time Light Heavyweight Champion...
  
  
• Duane Gish
  Duane Gish
  Duane Tolbert Gish is an American biochemist and a prominent member of the creationist movement. Gish is a former vice-president of the Institute for Creation Research and the author of numerous publications on the subject of creation science. Gish has been called "creationism's T.H...
  
   - creationist
• Duane Glinton
  Duane Glinton
  Duane Glinton is a Turks & Caicos Islands football midfielder.Duane is the younger brother of former Charleston Battery and San Jose Earthquakes striker Gavin Glinton.-Club career:...
  
  
• Duane Graveline
  Duane Graveline
  Duane Edgar Graveline is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He is most famous for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning...
  
   - American astronaut
• Duane M. Grubb
• Duane D. Hackney
  Duane D. Hackney
  Duane D. Hackney , of Flint, Michigan, a United States Air Force Pararescueman, was the most decorated airman in USAF history and the recipient of 28 decorations for valor in combat , and winner of the Cheney Award for 1967 Duane D. Hackney (June 5, 1947 – September 3, 1993), of Flint, Michigan, a...
  
  
• Duane Hanson
  Duane Hanson
  Duane Hanson was an American artist based in South Florida but born in Minnesota, a sculptor known for his lifecast realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fibreglass, Bondo and bronze...
  
   - American sculptor
• Duane Harden
  Duane Harden
  Duane Harden is a male African American dance music vocalist and songwriter who has sung on several big nightclub hits by various producers.Harden is particularly famous in the United Kingdom, having sung on two best selling dance singles in 1999: "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden and "I Got...
  
   - American singer and songwriter
• Duane Hopwood
  Duane Hopwood
  Duane Hopwood is a 2005 film featured in the Sundance Film Festival. It stars David Schwimmer and Janeane Garofalo, and includes John Krasinski, Judah Friedlander, Susan Lynch, Dick Cavett, Rachel Covey, and Mia Dillon...
  
  
• Duane Hudson
  Duane Hudson
  Colonel Duane Tyrell Hudson DSO OBE was a British SOE officer who fought in Yugoslavia during World War II.Hudson, a mining engineer, was a rugby player, swimmer, rider, skier, boxer, and wrestler. He attended St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown, South Africa. He spoke six foreign languages and...
  
  
• Duane Jones
  Duane Jones
  Duane L. Jones was an American actor, best known for his role as Ben in the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead. He was director of the Maguire Theater at the State University of New York at Old Westbury...
  
  
• Duane Josephson
  Duane Josephson
  Duane Charles Josephson was an American professional baseball player, a catcher who played for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball....
  
  
• Duane Kuiper
  Duane Kuiper
  Duane Eugene Kuiper is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, and is currently a five-time Emmy award-winning radio and television sportscaster for the San Francisco Giants...
  
  
• Duane Litfin
  Duane Litfin
  A. Duane Litfin was the seventh president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He holds an undergraduate degree in biblical studies and a master's degree in theology from Philadelphia Biblical University . His two doctoral degrees are from Purdue University and Oxford...
  
  
• Duane Martin
  Duane Martin
  Duane Martin is an American film and television actor.-Personal life:Martin was born in Dayton OH, and went to Dunbar High school and failed the 9th grade freshman year.Then met Tisha Campbell at the New York Liberty City Awards for the World records by doing backflips.-Career:Martin had a short...
  
  
• Duane Michals
  Duane Michals
  Duane Michals is an American photographer. Michals' work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.-Education and career:...
  
   - American photographer
• Duane R. Morrison - murderer
• Duane Pederson
  Duane Pederson
  The Rev. Fr. Duane Pederson is a former Jesus freak and leader of the Jesus movement who, in his capacity as founding editor of the Hollywood Free Paper first coined the terms Jesus people and Jesus movement....
  
  
• Duane Peters
  Duane Peters
  Duane Peters , nicknamed "The Master of Disaster", is a punk rock singer/songwriter and professional skateboarder. Active since 1977, he is probably best known as the singer in the California punk rock band U.S...
  
  
• Duane Pillette
  Duane Pillette
  Duane Xavier Pillette [″Dee″] was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball for four different teams from 1949 through 1956. Listed at 6' 3", 195 lb., Pillette batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• Duane Pomeroy
  Duane Pomeroy
  Duane Pomeroy is a Kansas politician and teacher who has served on the Topeka city council continuously since January 1993, was deputy mayor of Topeka, Kansas under Butch Felker, and then became acting mayor from November 2003 to early January 2004 after a scandal forced Felker's resignation...
  
  
• Duane Ross
  Duane Ross
  Randolph Duane Ross is a retired American track and field athlete who specialized in the 110 meters hurdles. He was the 1995 NCAA champion in the event and went on to win the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics...
  
  
• Duane Sand
  Duane Sand
  Duane Sand is a North Dakota politician, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and a U.S. Navy officer during the Iraq War. Sand ran for the United States Senate in North Dakota on the Republican ticket in 2000 against incumbent Kent Conrad of the Democratic-Nonpartisan League, and was...
  
  
• Duane Simolke
  Duane Simolke
  Duane Simolke is an American writer based in Lubbock, Texas, who has authored The Acorn Stories, Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure, Holding Me Together, The Return of Innocence , and New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio, based on the original Sherwood Anderson classic...
  
  
• Duane Starks
  Duane Starks
  Duane Lonell Starks is a former American football cornerback. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens 10th overall in the 1998 NFL Draft...
  
  
• Duane Sutter
  Duane Sutter
  Duane Calvin Sutter is a Canadian former forward player and former head coach in the National Hockey League. He is one of the famed six Sutter brothers to play in the NHL. As of August 22, 2011, he is a pro scout for the Edmonton Oilers....
  
  
• Duane D. Thiessen
  Duane D. Thiessen
  Duane D. Thiessen is a Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps, and is currently commanding the United States Marine Corps Forces Pacific, having assumed command on September 2, 2010.-Biography:...
  
  
• Duane Thomas
  Duane Thomas
  Duane Julius Thomas is a former American football running back in the National Football League who played four seasons for the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins from 1970 to 1974....
  
   - American football player
• Duane Thomas
  Duane Thomas (boxer)
  Duane Thomas , was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division.- Pro career :...
  
   - boxer
• Duane Viljoen
• Duane Vander Klok
• Duane Ward
  Duane Ward
  Roy Duane Ward was a Major League Baseball reliever during the late 1980s and early 1990s.Ward went to school and made his early athletic mark in Farmington, New Mexico, a small oil and gas city, and one known for its amateur baseball programs...
  
  
• Duane Washington
  Duane Washington
  Duane E. Washington is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA. He is the older brother of current Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher....
  
  
• Duane Whitaker
  Duane Whitaker
  Duane Whitaker is an American actor.Duane Whitaker is probably best known for his role in Quentin Tarantino's popular 1994 film Pulp Fiction as Maynard, the sadistic pawn shop owner. He wrote and portrayed the title role in Eddie Presley...
  
  
• Duane Wilson

Middle name

• Alan Duane Embree
  Alan Embree
  Alan Duane Embree is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a free agent. Previously, Embree played with the Cleveland Indians , Atlanta Braves , Arizona Diamondbacks , San Francisco Giants , Chicago White Sox , San Diego Padres , Boston Red Sox , New York...
  
   - American baseball player
• Cornell Duane Green - American football player
• F. Duane Ackerman
  F. Duane Ackerman
  F. Duane Ackerman is an American businessman. He was the last chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BellSouth Corporation.-Early life:...
  
   - chairman and CEO of BellSouth Corporation
• Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth
  Daniel D. T. Farnsworth
  Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth was an American politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia, who served in the West Virginia Senate and briefly as the second Governor of West Virginia.-Biography:...
  
   - American politician
• Darold Duane Knowles
  Darold Knowles
  Darold Duane Knowles is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher, and the current pitching coach of the Florida State League's Dunedin Blue Jays...
  
   - American baseball player
• James Duane Doty
  James Duane Doty
  James Duane Doty was a land speculator and politician in the United States who played a large role in the development of Wisconsin and Utah Territory.-Legal career:...
  
   - American politician
• Gerald Duane Willard
  Jerry Willard
  Gerald Duane Willard was a Major League Baseball catcher.Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent in 1979, Willard would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Cleveland Indians on April 11, 1984, and appeared in his final game on May 19, 1994.Willard's career was spent...
  
   - American baseball player
• Josiah Duane Hicks
  Josiah Duane Hicks
  Josiah Duane Hicks was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:Josiah D. Hicks was born in Machen, Wales. He immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 2003, and in the same year moved to...
  
   - American politician
• Mark Duane Morton
  Mark Morton
  Mark Morton may refer to:* Mark Morton , New South Wales politician* Mark Morton * Mark Morton , co-founder of Morton Salt* Mark Morton , guitarist with Lamb of God...
  
   - American Guitarist for Lamb Of God
  Lamb of God (band)
  Lamb of God is an American heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1994, the group consists of vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler, bassist John Campbell, and drummer Chris Adler...
  
  
• Randy Duane Knorr
  Randy Knorr
  Randy Duane Knorr is the manager for the Syracuse Chiefs of the International League, the Triple A affiliate to the Washington Nationals, and is a former catcher in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays , Houston Astros , Florida Marlins , Texas Rangers and Montreal Expos...
  
   - American baseball player
• Randall Duane Ayers
  Randy Ayers
  Randall Duane Ayers is a retired American college basketball player and former assistant coach of the Washington Wizards. His youngest brother, Tim Ayers, served as Mayor and City Commissioner of Springfield, Ohio from 1984–1990.Ayers was born in Springfield, Ohio, the fourth child of Frank Ayers...
  
   - American basketball player
• William Duane Benton
  William Duane Benton
  William Duane Benton is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.- Eighth Circuit nomination :...
  
   - United States federal judge

See also

• Dwayne
  Dwayne
  -History:St. Dubhán was a Welsh monk who established an abbey in Hook Head, Ireland during the 5th century. As a surname it is O'Dubhain, or Dubhan. Dubhain was a popular given name in 16th century southern Ireland. Anglicized form is Duane...
  
   - this spelling has a more specific etymology and is typically favoured by African-Americans, along with variants such as Dwane and DeWayne.
• Duane (surname)
  Duane (surname)
  Duane is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:* Anthony Duane , Irish born American congressman, Mayor of New York City and judge* Diane Duane , American science fiction and fantasy author...