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Damian vs Damoni

American parents have registered 110,256 Damians since 1880, against 2,002 Damonis. Damian is still ahead, with 3,213 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damian against Damoni, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damian Damoni

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

Damian has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Damian had 3,860 and Damoni had 176.

Side by side

  Damian Damoni
Total US births 110,2562,002
Most in one year 3,987176
Babies in 2025 3,21374
Estimated living today 107,0002,000
Median age today 1510
Peak year 20132012
Best rank 98th boys1,212th boys
Rank in 2025 109th2,230th
First recorded 19121995
Girls / boys 336 / 109,920465 / 1,537

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 Damians alive today are over 15; half the Damonis are over 10. 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: Damian and Damoni.