Damar
Damar was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,908 among boys’ names; 1,145 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Damar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Damar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Damar is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Damar?
#5,908 among boys’ names, 2025
Damar fell from #4,919 in 2015 to #5,908 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 8.8 per million.
37 babies in 1990, the peak
Damar peaked in 1990, when 37 boys were given it, #2,014 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,908 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,963 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,482 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,364 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,378 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,290 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,997 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,253 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,105 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,359 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #4,919 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,057 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,652 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,387 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,533 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,644 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,459 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,297 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,522 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 33 | #3,235 | 16.1 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,499 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 36 | #2,849 | 18.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,747 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,347 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,634 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,925 | 15.3 |
| 1999 | 23 | #3,392 | 12.0 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,662 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,765 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,544 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,328 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,038 | 11.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,160 | 10.7 |
| 1992 | 23 | #2,925 | 11.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,144 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 37 | #2,014 | 18.0 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,483 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,624 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,342 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,801 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,802 | 17.9 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,379 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,349 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 17 | #2,730 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,511 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #2,986 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,114 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,249 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,811 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,851 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,408 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,270 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,200 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Damar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damar has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Damar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damar, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,145 Americans ever recorded as Damar. The median Damar alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 903 people named Damar (68 women and girls, 835 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,025 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 223 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 5,645 babies since 1880, Damar is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 298 babies (5.0%), the third 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 Damar
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 Damar and names like it
- Compare Damar and DamirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDamar peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damar since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Damar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.