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Damari vs Damin

American parents have registered 6,358 Damaris since 1880, against 578 Damins. Damari is still ahead, with 262 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Damari Damin

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 41 years and Damin for 17 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Damari Damin
Total US births 6,358578
Most in one year 32123
Babies in 2025 262under 5
Estimated living today 6,300560
Median age today 1126
Peak year 20161975
Best rank 782nd boys2,001st boys
Rank in 2025 958thunranked
First recorded 19681966
Girls / boys 811 / 5,5470 / 578

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 Damins alive today are over 26; half the Damaris are over 11. That is 15 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 Damin.