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Damari vs Damiano

American parents have registered 6,358 Damaris since 1880, against 550 Damianos. Damari is still ahead, with 262 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Damari Damiano

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 62 years in which either name was published, Damari for 46 years and Damiano for 16 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Damari Damiano
Total US births 6,358550
Most in one year 32125
Babies in 2025 26225
Estimated living today 6,300520
Median age today 1119
Peak year 20161985
Best rank 782nd boys2,171st boys
Rank in 2025 958th4,139th
First recorded 19681916
Girls / boys 811 / 5,5470 / 550

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 Damianos alive today are over 19; half the Damaris are over 11. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Damari Damiano
England and Wales 13719

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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