Damein
Damein was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,450 among boys’ names; 1,045 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damein by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damein?
#12,450 among boys’ names, 2025
Damein rose from #12,467 in 2015 to #12,450 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 2.9 per million.
48 babies in 1978, the peak
Damein peaked in 1978, when 48 boys were given it, #1,304 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,450 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,565 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,575 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,027 | 4.3 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,467 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,372 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,213 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,522 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,724 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,395 | 11.5 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 30 | #3,569 | 15.1 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,160 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,919 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,320 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,713 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,296 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 39 | #2,582 | 19.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,684 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,335 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 29 | #3,004 | 14.8 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,604 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,930 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,280 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,850 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,113 | 11.6 |
| 1994 | 20 | #3,344 | 10.4 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,055 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,613 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,127 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,187 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #3,339 | 8.5 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,236 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,576 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,530 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 27 | #2,083 | 14.6 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,890 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,101 | 13.9 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,010 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 33 | #1,732 | 18.4 |
| 1980 | 43 | #1,451 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 47 | #1,355 | 27.3 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,304 | 29.2 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,750 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,437 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,107 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,482 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,052 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,058 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,416 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,844 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Damein a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damein has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damein: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damein, and how old are they?
An estimated 998 Americans named Damein and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 21 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 700 people named Damein (6 women and girls, 694 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,006 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 270,030 babies since 1880, Damein is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 4,865 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Damein
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 Damein and names like it
- Compare Damein and DamianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDamein peaked in 1978.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damein since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Damein.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damein alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.