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Damarco vs Damion

American parents have registered 16,927 Damions since 1880, against 770 Damarcos. Damion is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damarco against Damion, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damarco Damion

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

Damion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Damarco had 18 and Damion had 151.

Side by side

  Damarco Damion
Total US births 77016,927
Most in one year 44579
Babies in 2025 762
Estimated living today 75016,000
Median age today 2327
Peak year 19982002
Best rank 2,094th boys432nd boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th2,258th
First recorded 19781957
Girls / boys 0 / 77039 / 16,888

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 Damions alive today are over 27; half the Damarcos are over 23. That is 4 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 Damion.