Meaning not yet researched.
Damien: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 935 in 2025. Its best rank was #161 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #161 in 1978; #352 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Damien in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#352 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #161.
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Damien: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 935 boys in 2025. Peak: #161 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 2,265 (2007).
In 2025, 935 US boys were named Damien, making it the 352nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 9 places from #343 in 2024. That is 70 fewer than the 1,005 boys named Damien in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #161, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 2,265, in 2007. For comparison, it was #254 in 2015 and #2,468 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Damien in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 6 babies. In all, 65,018 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 18,567 babies named Damien.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,774 US boys were named Damien; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,362. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,827 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Damien ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #148 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Damian (110,256 babies since 1880), Damion (16,927 babies since 1880), Damon (69,157 babies since 1880) and Dameon (4,267 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Damien 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 6 | #148 | #115 |
| Hawaii | 7 | #156 | #163 |
| Arizona | 34 | #235 | #160 |
| Oregon | 18 | #237 | #361 |
| California | 155 | #240 | #195 |
| Nevada | 12 | #249 | #175 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #287 | — |
| West Virginia | 6 | #310 | #178 |
| North Carolina | 38 | #315 | #317 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #321 | #431 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #331 | #314 |
| Idaho | 7 | #340 | — |
| Minnesota | 17 | #342 | #594 |
| Texas | 111 | #342 | #268 |
| Virginia | 24 | #345 | #276 |
| Florida | 56 | #348 | #251 |
| Washington | 21 | #353 | #254 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #357 | #259 |
| Ohio | 31 | #360 | #299 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #365 | #206 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #368 | #295 |
| Maryland | 14 | #369 | #245 |
| Colorado | 17 | #372 | #269 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #375 | #156 |
| Illinois | 26 | #421 | #245 |
| Missouri | 15 | #423 | #326 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #430 | #296 |
| Kansas | 8 | #437 | #270 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #443 | #224 |
| Michigan | 19 | #449 | #284 |
| Georgia | 24 | #453 | #334 |
| Indiana | 15 | #460 | #244 |
| New York | 35 | #473 | #293 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #476 | #527 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #484 | #288 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #503 | #340 |
| Utah | 8 | #524 | #293 |
| Alabama | 9 | #536 | #372 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #578 | #404 |
| Iowa | 5 | #597 | #280 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 935 | #352 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,005 | #343 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,013 | #330 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,102 | #305 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,235 | #280 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,216 | #277 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,246 | #282 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,362 | #264 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,355 | #266 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,305 | #278 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,426 | #254 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,509 | #249 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,182 | 1,619 | #226 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,667 | #218 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,835 | #198 |
| 2010 | — | — | 1,937 | #192 |
| 2009 | — | — | 2,014 | #188 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,197 | 2,111 | #189 |
| 2007 | — | — | 2,265 | #182 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,583 | 1,993 | #195 |
| 2005 | — | — | 1,939 | #200 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,406 | 1,957 | #196 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,354 | 1,890 | #197 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,017 | 1,652 | #212 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,934 | 1,402 | #241 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,303 | #258 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,941 | 1,119 | #268 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,834 | 950 | #300 |
| 1997 | — | — | 907 | #301 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,021 | 840 | #314 |
| 1995 | — | — | 954 | #285 |
| 1994 | — | — | 976 | #280 |
| 1993 | — | — | 904 | #304 |
| 1992 | — | — | 865 | #308 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,540 | 812 | #316 |
| 1990 | — | — | 746 | #332 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,932 | 774 | #310 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,243 | 658 | #327 |
| 1987 | — | — | 580 | #344 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,334 | 645 | #314 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,560 | 687 | #296 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,390 | 708 | #288 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,221 | 790 | #262 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,618 | 951 | #242 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,959 | 1,037 | #228 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,300 | 1,338 | #182 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,563 | 1,321 | #183 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,729 | 1,507 | #161 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,994 | 833 | #246 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,950 | 663 | #284 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,619 | 542 | #326 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,784 | 659 | #284 |
| 1973 | — | — | 355 | #417 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,482 | 274 | #473 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,572 | 148 | #681 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,236 | 124 | #739 |
| 1969 | — | — | 93 | #801 |
| 1968 | — | — | 85 | #805 |
| 1967 | — | — | 51 | #1,021 |
| 1966 | — | — | 35 | #1,287 |
| 1965 | — | — | 43 | #1,146 |
| 1964 | — | — | 45 | #1,148 |
| 1963 | — | — | 35 | #1,323 |
| 1962 | — | — | 42 | #1,205 |
| 1961 | — | — | 38 | #1,281 |
| 1960 | — | — | 37 | #1,302 |
| 1959 | — | — | 28 | #1,508 |
| 1958 | — | — | 32 | #1,377 |
| 1957 | — | — | 26 | #1,552 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,107 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,857 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #1,975 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,308 |
| 1952 | — | — | 21 | #1,673 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,852 |
| 1950 | — | — | 10 | #2,468 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #1,961 |
| 1948 | — | — | 11 | #2,355 |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,398 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #2,964 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,413 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,778 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #2,992 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,517 |
| 1940 | — | — | 13 | #2,007 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,246 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,228 |
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).