Meaning not yet researched.
Damion: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #352 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #352 in 1977; #2,265 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Damion in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,265 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #352.
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Damion: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 boys in 2025. Peak: #352 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 579 (2002).
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Damion, making it the 2,265th most common boys’ name of the year, down 230 places from #2,035 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 75 boys named Damion in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #352, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 579, in 2002. For comparison, it was #1,218 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Damion in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 16,927 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 5,040 babies named Damion.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,144 US boys were named Damion; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 165. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,550 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Damion ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #1,502 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), Damien (65,018 babies since 1880), Damon (69,157 babies since 1880) and Dameon (4,267 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Demion are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Demion (10).
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 Damion 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,502 | #1,381 |
| California | 7 | #2,032 | #1,657 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 62 | #2,265 |
| 2024 | — | — | 75 | #2,035 |
| 2023 | — | — | 93 | #1,757 |
| 2022 | — | — | 75 | #2,025 |
| 2021 | — | — | 121 | #1,481 |
| 2020 | — | — | 126 | #1,386 |
| 2019 | — | — | 128 | #1,388 |
| 2018 | — | — | 148 | #1,245 |
| 2017 | — | — | 151 | #1,215 |
| 2016 | — | — | 165 | #1,160 |
| 2015 | — | — | 151 | #1,218 |
| 2014 | — | — | 172 | #1,110 |
| 2013 | — | — | 251 | #851 |
| 2012 | — | — | 216 | #942 |
| 2011 | — | — | 288 | #781 |
| 2010 | — | — | 335 | #697 |
| 2009 | — | — | 372 | #661 |
| 2008 | — | — | 418 | #601 |
| 2007 | — | — | 473 | #541 |
| 2006 | — | — | 524 | #495 |
| 2005 | — | — | 484 | #509 |
| 2004 | — | — | 550 | #464 |
| 2003 | — | — | 531 | #472 |
| 2002 | — | — | 579 | #432 |
| 2001 | — | — | 547 | #442 |
| 2000 | — | — | 562 | #433 |
| 1999 | — | — | 509 | #450 |
| 1998 | — | — | 526 | #435 |
| 1997 | — | — | 447 | #482 |
| 1996 | — | — | 440 | #486 |
| 1995 | — | — | 454 | #476 |
| 1994 | — | — | 413 | #496 |
| 1993 | — | — | 339 | #549 |
| 1992 | — | — | 309 | #581 |
| 1991 | — | — | 312 | #572 |
| 1990 | — | — | 225 | #676 |
| 1989 | — | — | 189 | #719 |
| 1988 | — | — | 159 | #751 |
| 1987 | — | — | 149 | #750 |
| 1986 | — | — | 175 | #683 |
| 1985 | — | — | 166 | #688 |
| 1984 | — | — | 205 | #591 |
| 1983 | — | — | 178 | #644 |
| 1982 | — | — | 205 | #601 |
| 1981 | — | — | 221 | #574 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,741 | 250 | #543 |
| 1979 | — | — | 341 | #434 |
| 1978 | — | — | 413 | #384 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,971 | 496 | #352 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,459 | 456 | #358 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,376 | 367 | #400 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,036 | 355 | #415 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,697 | 229 | #519 |
| 1972 | — | — | 235 | #514 |
| 1971 | — | — | 136 | #709 |
| 1970 | — | — | 134 | #712 |
| 1969 | — | — | 58 | #1,009 |
| 1968 | — | — | 74 | #846 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,417 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,908 |
| 1965 | — | — | 16 | #1,998 |
| 1964 | — | — | 18 | #1,914 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,099 |
| 1962 | — | — | 21 | #1,770 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,191 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,406 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,100 |
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).