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Damaris

Damaris reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 603, and has been recorded 13,286 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,436th. About 13,000 Damarises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Damaris boys named Damaris

By the numbers

Total US births
13,286
Estimated living today
13,000
Median age today
25
Peak year
2006
Best rank
603rd
Rank in 2025
1,436th
First recorded
1916
Girls / boys
12,734 / 552

How old the living Damarises are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 13,286 babies given the name since 1916, about 13,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 3,500 of them are children and 360 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

possibly from as a variation of δάμαλις (“calf”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Damariss

People named Damaris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Damaris is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Damaris is most concentrated in New York (2.8×), Arizona (2.7×), California (2.4×), Texas (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular girls’ names the year Damaris peaked:

All the names of 2006

Damaris elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Damaris 395 2,230th
England and Wales girls Damaris 219 1,782nd
Switzerland girls Damaris 99 402nd
Belgium girls Damaris 39 1,161st
Poland girls Damaris 9 birth registrations 594th
Ireland girls Damaris 4 716th
England and Wales boys Damaris 3 3,651st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Damaris: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Damaris 84 0.007% 305th
French girls Switzerland Damaris 13 0.003% 440th
Italian girls Switzerland Damaris 2 0.003% 200th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Damaris: rank by region

In 2011, Damaris was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Brussels Damaris 316 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Damaris by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 2 544th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Damaris among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Damaris 15 35

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Damaris lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,726 women called Damaris were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Damaris 128 0.231 488
Alicante/Alacant Damaris 234 0.228 446
Tarragona Damaris 98 0.224 463
Palmas, Las Damaris 124 0.210 527
Barcelona Damaris 618 0.203 430
Toledo Damaris 74 0.197 464

Listed in 51 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 1 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Damaris against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.