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Damaris vs Damontae

American parents have registered 13,286 Damarises since 1880, against 634 Damontaes. Damaris is still ahead, with 150 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damaris against Damontae, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damaris Damontae

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

Damaris has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Damaris had 200 and Damontae had 28.

Side by side

  Damaris Damontae
Total US births 13,286634
Most in one year 49639
Babies in 2025 1506
Estimated living today 13,000630
Median age today 2518
Peak year 20062007
Best rank 603rd girls2,974th boys
Rank in 2025 1,436th10,695th
First recorded 19161990
Girls / boys 12,734 / 5520 / 634

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 Damarises alive today are over 25; half the Damontaes are over 18. That is 7 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: Damaris and Damontae.