This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Durand,' or 'Durant.' 'Durand, Hampshire': Domesday, v. Durrans.

John fil. Doraunt de Moreby, 5 Edward II: Freemen of York.

Roger fil. Durandi, temp. 1230: Memorials of the Church of Ss. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon.

Durand le Bonjohan, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Henry fil. Durant, ibid.

Durant le Cordwaner, 1295. Writs of Parliament.

Ivo Duraunt, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Willelmus Durant, matras maker, 1379: Poll Tax of Howdenshire.

Johannes Dorand, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Hugo Doraunt, 1379: ibid.

1589. Married — Philip Durrant and Elizabeth Goodwyn: St. James, Clerkenwell.

An ancient personal name, Latinized Durandus. Durandus, vicecomes, perambulated the bounds of Clerchetune (Clerkington, East Lothian), c. 1141 (RPSA., p. 181). Michael, son of Durand, witnessed grant by Thomas, son of Andrew de Kyrconeuel, to the Abbey of Holmcultran, c. 1280—90 (Holm Cultram, p. 48). Wautier Durant of Dumfriesshire rendered homage, 1296. His seal bears a squirrel within interlaced squeres, S' Walted Doraumt (Bain, II, p. 198,551). In 1297 there is mention of a royal message to (among others) Walter and John Duraunt (ibid., 884). John Durand witnessed a notarial instrument in Dumfries, 1453 (Edgar, p. 225). Malcolm Durande, prebendary of Lochmaben, 1478, appears in 1497 as Malcolm Durans, canon of Glasgow and prebendary of Gowan (Govan) (REG., p. 438,478, 495). John Durand, notary public, Dumfries, 1506 (Edgar, p. 227), probably a son of above John. Robert Durrance, witness in Glasgow, 1519 (LCD., p. 219). Gilbert Durandis was renter of a half-mark land in Carmyle, 1526 (Rental), and Thomas Durrane is recorded in Edgartoun, 1679 (Kirkcudbright).

(Anglo-French-Latin) Enduring, Lasting [Latin durans, durantis] The form Durand occurs in Domesday.

It is possible that this comes from the latin "durare," meaning to last.

Valencian name of French origin.

See Durán.

[Durón] Apocope of the Basque surname Duronea documented in Senpere, Larburdi in 1782. It is the name of a village in Zuberoa (Soule) and in Ustaritz, Laburdi, from "uro" - fernery - and the locative suffix "-on" (a).

De Urones, Burgos - very ancient de Hurón, de Uro, D'Uron, D'Urones, D'Hurones, De Hurone, Durones, are variants. Family branches went to Honduras and changed spelling to Huron.

(French) Descendant of Durand (lasting).

An ancient personal name, in Latin Durandus, under which form it occurs in Domesday. An early Norman proprietor of this name founded Duranville (called in charters Durandi villa) near Bernai, in or before the eleventh century. The name of the immortal author of the Inferno was by baptism Durante-afterwards shortened by his familiar friends into Dante.

Geoffry, Roger, Henry Durant, &c., of Normandy, 1180-95, Aceline, Ralph, Richard, Robert D., 1198 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae); Everand D. of England, 1189 (Rot. Pip.); Roger, Robert D. in England, 1198 (Rotuli Curiae Regis).

Durrant has been for ages a Norfolk name. In the reign of Henry VI., the Durants or Duraunts held Hall Place Manor in South Lynn, and the name is still in Lynn. A Norwich family of Durrant was buried in St. Bennet's church in that city between 1684 and 1706; and there were marbles in Scothowe church to another family of Durrant bearing dates between 1697 and 1723 (Bl.). This is an ancient pre - Domesday name (L.), though according to Ferguson it came with the Normans. It was represented by Durant and Duraunt in this county, as well as in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Bucks, Kent, and Oxfordshire, in the time of Edward I. (H. R.). It also occurs now in Suffolk, Sussex, Bucks, and Dorset.

The principal home of the Durrants in the past was in the eastern counties, and further reference to the name will be found under "Norfolk." The name was represented in the adjacent county of Kent in the 13th century (H. R.). Three mayors of Hastings, Sussex, in the 16th century, bore this name (M.).