Daman
Daman was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 666 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Daman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Daman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Daman is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
*The place name is from Gujarati દમણ (damaṇ). *The given name derives from the Sanskrit equivalent of Ancient Greek Damian, the brother of Cosmas.
/dəˈmɑːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Daman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,541, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1976, the peak
Daman peaked in 1976, when 35 boys were given it, #1,544 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #12,541 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,068 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,572 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,710 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,753 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,056 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,696 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,167 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,007 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,700 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 12 | #6,885 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,442 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,700 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,124 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,336 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,611 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,304 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,461 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,030 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,407 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,026 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,201 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 17 | #3,910 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,610 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,140 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,840 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,495 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,298 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,350 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,546 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,881 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,285 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,015 | 5.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,941 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,937 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,305 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,204 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,790 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,904 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,900 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,038 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 27 | #1,877 | 16.4 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,078 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 35 | #1,544 | 22.3 |
| 1975 | 25 | #1,899 | 16.0 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,667 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,327 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,689 | 8.0 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,004 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,763 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,113 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,853 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,314 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Daman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Daman 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 Daman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Daman, and how old are they?
An estimated 629 Americans named Daman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 21 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 680 people named Daman (63 women and girls, 617 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 634 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above 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 270,599 babies since 1880, Daman is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,957 babies recorded by SSA was a Daman (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 Daman
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 Daman and names like it
- Compare Daman and DamianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDaman peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Daman since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Daman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Daman.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Daman alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.