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Damari vs Damein

American parents have registered 6,358 Damaris since 1880, against 1,045 Dameins. Damari is still ahead, with 262 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Damari Damein

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

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Damari for 34 years and Damein for 24 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Damari Damein
Total US births 6,3581,045
Most in one year 32148
Babies in 2025 2625
Estimated living today 6,3001,000
Median age today 1131
Peak year 20161978
Best rank 782nd boys1,299th boys
Rank in 2025 958th12,008th
First recorded 19681970
Girls / boys 811 / 5,5470 / 1,045

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 Dameins alive today are over 31; half the Damaris are over 11. That is 20 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 Damein.