Meaning not yet researched.
Damian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,213 in 2025. Its best rank was #98 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #98 in 2013; #109 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Damian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#109 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #98.
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Damian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,213 boys in 2025. Peak: #98 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 3,976 (2013).
In 2025, 3,213 US boys were named Damian, making it the 109th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1 place from #110 in 2024. That is 32 fewer than the 3,245 boys named Damian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #98, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,976. For comparison, it was #116 in 2015 and #1,188 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Damian in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 110,256 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 35,329 babies named Damian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 33,550 US boys were named Damian; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 3,553. In 2025 that was about 1 in 532 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Damian ranked highest in California in 2025, at #39 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 8 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Damien (65,018 babies since 1880), Damion (16,927 babies since 1880), Damon (69,157 babies since 1880) and Dameon (4,267 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Damein, Dameion and Daymian are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Damein (1,045), Dameion (901), Daymian (671), Daman (666), Damin (578), Damiano (550), Damean (468), Daymien (439), Damyan (390), Damain (366), Daimian (212), Daymion (206), and more.
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 Damian 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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 765 | #39 | #42 |
| Nevada | 54 | #41 | #45 |
| Texas | 646 | #50 | #66 |
| Arizona | 105 | #70 | #49 |
| Oregon | 48 | #75 | #75 |
| New Mexico | 21 | #88 | #53 |
| Illinois | 130 | #92 | #93 |
| Colorado | 69 | #98 | #122 |
| Washington | 68 | #114 | #121 |
| Florida | 176 | #122 | #133 |
| Kansas | 29 | #134 | #137 |
| New Jersey | 71 | #135 | #149 |
| Georgia | 87 | #138 | #218 |
| Oklahoma | 34 | #139 | #218 |
| North Carolina | 89 | #141 | #193 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #144 | #217 |
| New York | 134 | #146 | #208 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | #150 | #143 |
| Utah | 35 | #152 | #165 |
| Nebraska | 18 | #155 | #181 |
| Hawaii | 7 | #155 | #162 |
| Minnesota | 41 | #162 | #261 |
| Connecticut | 20 | #174 | #181 |
| Delaware | 6 | #177 | #211 |
| Idaho | 15 | #177 | #136 |
| Wisconsin | 35 | #178 | #258 |
| Tennessee | 52 | #181 | #348 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #185 | #200 |
| Indiana | 44 | #193 | #262 |
| Virginia | 44 | #199 | #270 |
| Maryland | 29 | #201 | #244 |
| South Carolina | 27 | #208 | #281 |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #217 | #178 |
| Alabama | 25 | #226 | #245 |
| Missouri | 29 | #246 | #308 |
| Michigan | 39 | #260 | #241 |
| Kentucky | 20 | #270 | #362 |
| Iowa | 14 | #281 | #187 |
| Louisiana | 18 | #281 | #335 |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #305 | #236 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #378 | #315 |
| Ohio | 29 | #381 | #280 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 3,213 | #109 |
| 2024 | — | — | 3,245 | #110 |
| 2023 | — | — | 3,293 | #108 |
| 2022 | — | — | 3,466 | #108 |
| 2021 | — | — | 3,299 | #113 |
| 2020 | — | — | 3,339 | #110 |
| 2019 | — | — | 3,452 | #112 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,794 | 3,553 | #109 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,559 | 3,344 | #119 |
| 2016 | — | — | 3,346 | #123 |
| 2015 | — | — | 3,491 | #116 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,025 | 3,882 | #102 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,755 | 3,976 | #98 |
| 2012 | — | — | 3,860 | #99 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,438 | 3,014 | #138 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,812 | 3,366 | #121 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,969 | 3,350 | #127 |
| 2008 | — | — | 3,077 | #133 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,989 | #137 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,582 | 2,977 | #137 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,112 | 2,630 | #156 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,862 | 2,529 | #160 |
| 2003 | — | — | 2,454 | #163 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,024 | 2,345 | #163 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,963 | #189 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,720 | #205 |
| 1999 | — | — | 1,540 | #220 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,458 | 1,567 | #207 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,441 | 1,507 | #206 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,020 | 1,408 | #214 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,777 | 1,351 | #221 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,997 | 1,349 | #215 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,130 | 1,133 | #252 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,111 | 1,087 | #261 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,846 | 964 | #277 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,463 | 782 | #322 |
| 1989 | — | — | 777 | #307 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,663 | 620 | #342 |
| 1987 | — | — | 537 | #364 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,739 | 514 | #363 |
| 1985 | — | — | 507 | #362 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,535 | 540 | #346 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,447 | 542 | #339 |
| 1982 | — | — | 583 | #328 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,765 | 517 | #347 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,398 | 582 | #326 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,455 | 678 | #296 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,787 | 847 | #244 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,475 | 1,054 | #210 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,949 | 993 | #213 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,294 | 891 | #230 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,131 | 829 | #241 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,512 | 658 | #278 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,128 | 622 | #298 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,626 | 371 | #417 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,927 | 339 | #446 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,125 | 283 | #455 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,220 | 285 | #453 |
| 1967 | — | — | 173 | #572 |
| 1966 | — | — | 171 | #578 |
| 1965 | — | — | 162 | #597 |
| 1964 | — | — | 183 | #585 |
| 1963 | — | — | 170 | #602 |
| 1962 | — | — | 163 | #607 |
| 1961 | — | — | 143 | #657 |
| 1960 | — | — | 132 | #683 |
| 1959 | — | — | 103 | #750 |
| 1958 | — | — | 81 | #837 |
| 1957 | — | — | 87 | #807 |
| 1956 | — | — | 88 | #792 |
| 1955 | — | — | 88 | #779 |
| 1954 | — | — | 68 | #895 |
| 1953 | — | — | 53 | #990 |
| 1952 | — | — | 57 | #939 |
| 1951 | — | — | 38 | #1,174 |
| 1950 | — | — | 37 | #1,188 |
| 1949 | — | — | 40 | #1,116 |
| 1948 | — | — | 32 | #1,282 |
| 1947 | — | — | 24 | #1,525 |
| 1946 | — | — | 18 | #1,706 |
| 1945 | — | — | 28 | #1,251 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,904 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,409 |
| 1942 | — | — | 16 | #1,814 |
| 1941 | — | — | 17 | #1,705 |
| 1940 | — | — | 17 | #1,693 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,734 |
| 1938 | — | — | 17 | #1,700 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,016 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,325 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,574 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,602 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,016 |
| 1932 | — | — | 17 | #1,790 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,353 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,478 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,643 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,429 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,528 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,195 |
| 1925 | — | — | 14 | #2,215 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,854 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #2,994 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,265 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,272 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,272 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,446 |
| 1917 | — | — | 10 | #2,592 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,155 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,714 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,132 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,342 |
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).