Dama
Dama was last recorded in 1983, when 7 babies were given it; 176 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dama?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,217, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1974, the peak
Dama peaked in 1974, when 14 girls were given it, #4,273 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 7 | #8,217 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,628 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,761 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,348 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,220 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,265 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,602 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,616 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,273 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,407 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 10 | #5,177 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,348 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,548 | 6.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,216 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,684 | 5.5 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,395 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,457 | 2.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,490 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,866 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,990 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,108 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,283 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dama has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dama, and how old are they?
An estimated 139 Americans named Dama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 49 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 474 people named Dama (425 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Dama rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 5,128 babies since 1880, Dama is the seventh most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 62 babies recorded by SSA was a Dama (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Dama
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 Dama and names like it
- Compare Dama and DamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDama peaked in 1974.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Dama.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dama alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.