Unisex name · since 1989
Damilola
Damilola has 199 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2005 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,851 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,565 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 199
- born since 1989
- 2010s
- peak decade
Damilola currently ranks #15565 among unisex names in America, with 199 babies recorded since 1989.
Damilola has 199 recorded births among girls since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15565 as of the latest data, more common than 10% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 2025.
- #19,851 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,565 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 199 born since 1989
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Damilola ranks #19,851 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,565 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 199 born since 1989, peaking in the 2010s.
- #19,851 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,565 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 199
- born since 1989
- 2010s
- peak decade
Damilola's 199 recorded births place it above 72.5% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
The state file records this name in 1 jurisdictions, led by Maryland.
How Damilola compares
199 37th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Damilola's all-time total is 47% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Damilola | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 199 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Damilola's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Damilola's full recorded timeline at 2009, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1989, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2005 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Damilola popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–2025
- Peak year (2005)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 37 years of records
Damilola popularity over time - boys
48 total births recorded since 1997 (Damilola as boys' name)
Damilola by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (75 births, 38% of the file).
2010s was Damilola's strongest decade.
75 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 38% of all-time use.
Damilola births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 29
1990s
29 births
- 2000s
2000s
69 births
- 2010s
2010s
75 births
- 2020s 21
2020s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 75 births (38% of all-time use).
Damilola by state
Where Damilola concentrates geographically, total births since 1989
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Maryland | | 5 | 2.5% |
5 of 199 births nationwide.
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What to do with Damilola's data
- Damilola's decade-level peak was the 2010s (75 total births); usage has since declined to 21 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
- Maryland records the most Damilolas (5 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. Maryland names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Damilola: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2005)
Similar record span (~36 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Damilola draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.