About the name Duarte
Duarte belongs to the Portuguese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Duarte first appears in Social Security records in 1970. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #4913 in 1970, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 20 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.