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Damari vs Damya

American parents have registered 6,358 Damaris since 1880, against 1,461 Damyas. Damari is still ahead, with 262 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Damari Damya

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 1999, when Damari had 55 and Damya had 29.

Side by side

  Damari Damya
Total US births 6,3581,461
Most in one year 321102
Babies in 2025 26219
Estimated living today 6,3001,400
Median age today 1116
Peak year 20162008
Best rank 782nd boys2,032nd girls
Rank in 2025 958th6,116th
First recorded 19681998
Girls / boys 811 / 5,5471,461 / 0

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 Damyas alive today are over 16; half the Damaris are over 11. That is 5 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: Damari and Damya.