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Damin vs Damion

American parents have registered 16,927 Damions since 1880, against 578 Damins. Damion is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damin against Damion, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damin Damion

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

Damion has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1966, when Damin had 5 and Damion had 17.

Side by side

  Damin Damion
Total US births 57816,927
Most in one year 23579
Babies in 2025 under 562
Estimated living today 56016,000
Median age today 2627
Peak year 19752002
Best rank 2,001st boys432nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,258th
First recorded 19661957
Girls / boys 0 / 57839 / 16,888

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.

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