The surname Durandis was first found in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire at Tong, a parish, in the union of Shiffnall, Shiffnall division of the hundred of Brimstree.
The Domesday Book of 1086 has the first record of the family. Durandus, the Latin form of the name in use at that time, was registered in Winton, Hampshire as holding lands there at that time.