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Damari vs Damato

American parents have registered 6,358 Damaris since 1880, against 21 Damatos. Damari is still ahead, with 262 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damari against Damato, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damari Damato

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

Damari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Damari had 15 and Damato had 14.

Side by side

  Damari Damato
Total US births 6,35821
Most in one year 32114
Babies in 2025 262under 5
Estimated living today 6,30020
Median age today 1135
Peak year 20161990
Best rank 782nd boys3,971st boys
Rank in 2025 958thunranked
First recorded 19681990
Girls / boys 811 / 5,5470 / 21

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 Damatos alive today are over 35; half the Damaris are over 11. That is 24 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: Damari and Damato.