Damion
Damion was given to 62 boys in 2025, #2,265 among boys’ names; 16,927 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,200 Americans named Damion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damion?
#2,265 among boys’ names, 2025
Damion fell from #1,218 in 2015 to #2,265 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 78.8 to 36.3 per million.
579 babies in 2002, the peak
Damion peaked in 2002, when 579 boys were given it, #432 among boys’ names. The 62 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,265 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,035 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 93 | #1,757 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,024 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,481 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 126 | #1,386 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,388 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 148 | #1,245 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 151 | #1,215 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 165 | #1,160 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 151 | #1,218 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 172 | #1,110 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 251 | #851 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 216 | #942 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 288 | #781 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 335 | #697 | 0.17 |
| 2009 | 372 | #661 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 418 | #601 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 473 | #541 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 524 | #495 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 484 | #509 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 550 | #464 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 531 | #472 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 579 | #432 | 0.30 |
| 2001 | 547 | #442 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 562 | #433 | 0.29 |
| 1999 | 509 | #450 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 526 | #435 | 0.28 |
| 1997 | 447 | #482 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 440 | #486 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 454 | #476 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 413 | #496 | 0.21 |
| 1993 | 339 | #549 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 309 | #579 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 312 | #571 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 225 | #674 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 189 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 159 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 149 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 175 | #683 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 166 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 205 | #591 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 178 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 205 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 221 | #574 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 250 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 341 | #434 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 413 | #384 | 0.25 |
| 1977 | 496 | #352 | 0.30 |
| 1976 | 456 | #358 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 367 | #400 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 355 | #415 | 0.23 |
| 1973 | 229 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 235 | #514 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 136 | #709 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 134 | #712 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 58 | #1,009 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 74 | #846 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 29 | #1,416 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,907 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 16 | #1,997 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #1,913 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,769 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,190 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,405 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,099 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Damion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damion has been given almost only to boys: 39 girls in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Damion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damion, and how old are they?
16,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 16,927 Americans ever recorded as Damion. The median Damion alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 13,674 people named Damion (62 women and girls, 13,612 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,905 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 50 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,950 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,710 |
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).
Where are babies named Damion born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,502 | 1.1× |
| California | 7 | #2,032 | 0.7× |
Where Damion is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Damion is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1957 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Damion with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 271,656 babies since 1880, Damion is the fourth most given (6.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 4,976 babies (1.2%), the fifth 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 Damion
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 Damion and names like it
- Compare Damion and DamianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDamion peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damion since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Damion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.