girls:
336 births since 1968
#5380 (6th percentile)
boys:
103.4k births since 1912
#302 (93rd percentile)
overall:
103.8k births since 1912
#664 (91st percentile)
The name Damian is the #664 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 103,756 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 91.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #302 (93.4% percentile) for all time with 103,420 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,380 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 336 births since 1968.
Damian first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1968 for girls). Birth data for Damian is available in 110 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (110 years for boys and 38 years for girls). 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 Damian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Damian reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 89.1% percentile (ranked #99) with 1,902 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 1,967 births per million (ranked 89.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Damian ranks #105 for boys (88.6% percentile) with 1,792 births per million, which is 91.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Damian reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #729) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Damian".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Damian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.6% confident that Damian is pronounced as DAY-mee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-MEE-uhn, at 15.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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