Damian
Damian is a boy's name that peaked in 2013, when it was the 98th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 109th. About 107,000 Damians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Damian boys named Damian
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 110,256
- Estimated living today
- 107,000
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 98th
- Rank in 2025
- 109th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 336 / 109,920
How old the living Damians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 110,256 babies given the name since 1912, about 107,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 61,000 of them are children and 710 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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
From the name Δαμιανός which was derived from δαμάω (“to tame”) (see δαμάζω). Name known in Ancient Greece, later borne by Christian saints.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Damians
- Damian Lillard (born 1990)American basketball player
- Damian Lewis (born 1971)British actor
- Damian Marley (born 1978)Jamaican DJ, singer and rapper
- Damian Warner (born 1989)Canadian decathlete
- Damian Szymański (born 1995)Polish association football player
- Damian Priest (born 1982)Puerto Rican-American professional wrestler
- Damián Bobadilla (born 2001)Paraguayan footballer
- Damián Szifron (born 1975)Argentine film director
People named Damian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Damian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Damian is most concentrated in Nevada (3.9×), Arizona (3.2×), New Mexico (2.7×), California (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Damian peaked:
Damian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Damian | 35,744 birth registrations | 13th |
| England and Wales boys | Damian | 3,647 | 253rd |
| Ireland boys | Damian | 3,444 | 57th |
| France boys | Damian +1 spelling | 1,980 | 432nd |
| Switzerland boys | Damian | 1,955 | 66th |
| Italy boys | Damian | 1,354 | — |
| New Zealand boys | Damian | 1,084 | 61st |
| Norway boys | Damian | 928 | 150th |
| Scotland boys | Damian | 540 | 119th |
| Belgium boys | Damian | 524 | 283rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Damian | 98 | 160th |
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.
Damian: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Damian | 1,729 | 0.139% | 55th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Damian | 176 | 0.040% | 135th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Damian | 39 | 0.060% | 64th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Damian | 11 | 0.296% | 3rd |
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.
By canton, Damian is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.21% of children were given it – 234 of them.
Damian: rank by region
In 2025, Damian was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Damian | 240 | 25 |
| Brussels | Damian | 114 | 10 |
In 2025, Damian was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Damian | 92 | 15 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Damian | 85 | 11 |
| Lubelskie | Damian | 72 | 10 |
| Lubuskie | Damian | 62 | 9 |
| Łódzkie | Damian | 85 | 12 |
| Małopolskie | Damian | 79 | 24 |
| Mazowieckie | Damian | 84 | 40 |
| Opolskie | Damian | 87 | 5 |
| Podkarpackie | Damian | 92 | 8 |
| Podlaskie | Damian | 73 | 7 |
| Pomorskie | Damian | 96 | 14 |
| Śląskie | Damian | 78 | 27 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Damian | 82 | 4 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Damian | 76 | 9 |
| Wielkopolskie | Damian | 91 | 22 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Damian | 81 | 10 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Damian appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (102nd), Brussels-Capital Region (114th), Province of Antwerp (251st) and Province of East Flanders (264th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 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.
Damian by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 195 | 98th |
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 3 | 531st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Damian 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Damian | 6,202 | 7,644 |
| Finland boys | Damian | 107 | 190 |
| the Netherlands girls | Damian | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Damian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 12,296 men called Damian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Damian | 631 | 1.380 | 118 |
| Balears, Illes | Damian | 738 | 1.185 | 121 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Damian | 520 | 0.976 | 151 |
| Coruña, A | Damian | 521 | 0.957 | 134 |
| Murcia | Damian | 725 | 0.912 | 138 |
| Ceuta | Damian | 37 | 0.878 | 190 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Damian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.