Daimon
Daimon was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,248 among boys’ names; 802 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daimon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Daimon?
#5,248 among boys’ names, 2025
Daimon rose from #5,338 in 2015 to #5,248 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 10.5 per million.
33 babies in 2003, the peak
Daimon peaked in 2003, when 33 boys were given it, #2,935 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,248 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,171 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,391 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,032 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,939 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,207 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,856 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,300 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,572 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,243 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,338 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,564 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,013 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,286 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,661 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,913 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,502 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,465 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,846 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,697 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,077 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #3,751 | 12.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,935 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,536 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,427 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,086 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,391 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,048 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,764 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,846 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,315 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,621 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,527 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 21 | #3,123 | 10.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,039 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,722 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,839 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,582 | 3.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,603 | 3.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,032 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,124 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,580 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,227 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,497 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,680 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,257 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 19 | #2,298 | 12.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,830 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,625 | 9.0 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,403 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,843 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,331 | 4.8 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,946 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daimon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daimon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Daimon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daimon, and how old are they?
An estimated 773 Americans named Daimon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 681 people named Daimon (7 women and girls, 674 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 726 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 97,850 babies since 1880, Daimon is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 846 babies (2.1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Daimon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Daimon and names like it
- Compare Daimon and DamonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDaimon peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daimon since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Daimon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Daimon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.