Damara
Damara was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,597 among girls’ names; 1,030 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Damara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damara?
#9,597 among girls’ names, 2025
Damara rose from #11,107 in 2015 to #9,597 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 6.2 per million.
48 babies in 2004, the peak
Damara peaked in 2004, when 48 girls were given it, #3,186 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,597 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,157 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,143 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,475 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,448 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,613 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,860 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,466 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,080 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,107 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #12,201 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,123 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,165 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,407 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,460 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,416 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,613 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,984 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,929 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,481 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,186 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,119 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,931 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,344 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,899 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,756 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,941 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,149 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,646 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,430 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,065 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,281 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,094 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,219 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,266 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,381 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,913 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,156 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,233 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,756 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,782 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,318 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,543 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,185 | 10.8 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,014 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,077 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,277 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,992 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,945 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,072 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,506 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,940 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,575 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,596 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,242 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,798 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,715 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,754 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Damara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damara, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,030 Americans ever recorded as Damara. The median Damara alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 941 people named Damara (929 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 962 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 149 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 329 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 397 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 127 |
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 2,450 babies since 1880, Damara is the most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 34 babies (29%), again the most given.
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 Damara
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 Damara and names like it
- Compare Damara and DamariaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDamara peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damara since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Damara.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damara alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.