Damaya
Damaya was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,485 among girls’ names; 553 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damaya?
#8,485 among girls’ names, 2025
Damaya fell from #7,050 in 2015 to #8,485 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 7.5 per million.
35 babies in 2006, the peak
Damaya peaked in 2006, when 35 girls were given it, #4,180 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,485 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,702 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,436 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,144 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,344 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,701 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,832 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,795 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,389 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,321 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,050 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,199 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,689 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,396 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,587 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,634 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,253 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,489 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,493 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,180 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,132 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,369 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,658 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,200 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,406 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,558 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,333 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,650 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Damaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 548 Americans named Damaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 389 people named Damaya (389 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 480 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
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 5,910 babies since 1880, Damaya is the fifth most given (9.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 80 babies (15%), the fourth 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 Damaya
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 Damaya and names like it
- Compare Damaya and DamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDamaya peaked in 2006.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Damaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.