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Daemon vs Daer

American parents have registered 1,849 Daemons since 1880, against 52 Daers. Daemon is still ahead, with 102 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Daemon against Daer, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Daemon Daer

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Daemon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1970 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Daemon had 63 and Daer had 25.

Side by side

  Daemon Daer
Total US births 1,84952
Most in one year 15825
Babies in 2025 102under 5
Estimated living today 1,80050
Median age today 126
Peak year 20232019
Best rank 1,238th boys4,114th boys
Rank in 2025 1,644thunranked
First recorded 19702018
Girls / boys 0 / 1,8490 / 52

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Daemons alive today are over 12; half the Daers are over 6. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Daemon and Daer.