Damaris
Damaris is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 154 births. Its best rank was 603rd, in 2006.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1540.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2006483 births
- Best rank
- #603in 2006
- Since 1916
- 13,133people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,581 girls have been named Damaris in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 483 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1999, and the 2000s alone account for 29%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 552 boys have also been given it, 4.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Damaris | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 16 | |
| 1920s | 63 | |
| 1930s | 87 | |
| 1940s | 124 | |
| 1950s | 270 | |
| 1960s | 633 | |
| 1970s | 1,323 | |
| 1980s | 1,496 | |
| 1990s | 2,301 | |
| 2000s | 3,704 | |
| 2010s | 1,871 | |
| 2020s | 693 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Damaris was the 603rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Damaris
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jaynapeak 2006
- Seannapeak 2006
- Danyapeak 2007
- Analisapeak 2000
- Nataliepeak 2006
- Meleahpeak 2007
- Mailepeak 2007
- Maijapeak 1999
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.