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Damarco vs Damaris

American parents have registered 13,286 Damarises since 1880, against 770 Damarcos. Damaris is still ahead, with 150 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damarco against Damaris, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damarco Damaris

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

Damaris has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1992, when Damarco had 30 and Damaris had 208.

Side by side

  Damarco Damaris
Total US births 77013,286
Most in one year 44496
Babies in 2025 7150
Estimated living today 75013,000
Median age today 2325
Peak year 19982006
Best rank 2,094th boys603rd girls
Rank in 2025 9,714th1,436th
First recorded 19781916
Girls / boys 0 / 77012,734 / 552

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 Damarises alive today are over 25; half the Damarcos are over 23. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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