girls:
12.4k births since 1916
#1408 (75th percentile)
boys:
552 births since 1969
#4034 (12th percentile)
overall:
13k births since 1916
#2313 (70th percentile)
The name Damaris is the #2,313 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,978 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 70.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,408 (75.4% percentile) for all time with 12,426 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,034 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 552 births since 1969.
Damaris first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1969 for boys). Birth data for Damaris is available in 103 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 52 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Damaris has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Damaris reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 44.9% percentile (ranked #533) with 231 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 231 births per million (ranked 44.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Damaris ranks #817 for girls (13.7% percentile) with 77 births per million, which is 33.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Damaris reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #791) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Damaris".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Damaris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.6% confident that Damaris is pronounced as DA-mer-ihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-MAH-ruhs, at 18.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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