In 2025, 150 US girls were named Damaris, making it the 1,437th most common girls’ name of the year, down 8 places from #1,429 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 155 girls named Damaris in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #603, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 483. For comparison, it was #1,418 in 2015 and #2,571 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Damaris in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 13,286 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,853 babies named Damaris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,421 US girls were named Damaris; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 155. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,715 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Damaris ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #756 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Damarius (1,544 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Damarys, Damariz and Damarious are summarised on this page.