Meaning not yet researched.
Damani: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,156 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,156 in 2012; #2,264 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Damani in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,264 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,156.
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Damani: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,156 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 158 (2012).
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Damani, making it the 2,264th most common boys’ name of the year, down 230 places from #2,034 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 75 boys named Damani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,156, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 158. For comparison, it was #1,916 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Damani, making it the 5,763rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,921 places from #7,684 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 14 girls named Damani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,800, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 40. For comparison, it was #5,332 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Damani in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 18 babies. In all, 3,286 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,129 babies named Damani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 667 US boys were named Damani; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,550 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Damani ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,678 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Damoni (2,002 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Damonie, Damany and Damini are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Damonie (364), Damany (89), Damini (46), Damonii (42), Damauni (11), Damiani (5), Damonni (5), Damonei (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Damani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,678 | #1,199 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,655 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,763 | 62 | #2,264 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,684 | 75 | #2,034 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,282 | 61 | #2,294 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,203 | 67 | #2,172 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,754 | 70 | #2,079 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,703 | 64 | #2,167 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,654 | 72 | #2,024 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,256 | 60 | #2,271 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,948 | 67 | #2,071 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,981 | 69 | #2,048 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,332 | 76 | #1,916 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,925 | 115 | #1,437 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,800 | 124 | #1,363 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,866 | 158 | #1,156 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,167 | 68 | #2,004 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,657 | 62 | #2,150 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,297 | 64 | #2,125 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,183 | 70 | #2,008 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,566 | 62 | #2,168 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,089 | 59 | #2,186 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,991 | 63 | #1,989 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,487 | 89 | #1,505 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,449 | 80 | #1,580 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,127 | 85 | #1,485 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,363 | 92 | #1,379 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,030 | 92 | #1,370 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,254 | 89 | #1,344 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,402 | 78 | #1,451 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,945 | 58 | #1,695 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,190 | 43 | #2,023 |
| 1995 | — | — | 45 | #1,891 |
| 1994 | — | — | 38 | #2,128 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,172 |
| 1992 | — | — | 46 | #1,808 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,047 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,515 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #5,793 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,439 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #4,944 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,189 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,240 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,133 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,782 |
| 1974 | — | — | 25 | #1,839 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,742 |
| 1972 | — | — | 22 | #1,938 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,222 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).