Damiya
Damiya was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,599 among girls’ names; 911 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damiya?
#9,599 among girls’ names, 2025
Damiya fell from #3,785 in 2015 to #9,599 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 6.2 per million.
59 babies in 2010, the peak
Damiya peaked in 2010, when 59 girls were given it, #2,912 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,599 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,566 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,003 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,933 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,606 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,702 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,799 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,868 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,862 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,322 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,785 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,600 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,982 | 31.9 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,328 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,559 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,912 | 33.2 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,423 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 55 | #3,086 | 29.1 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,545 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,185 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,817 | 20.6 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,413 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,568 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,777 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,386 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,349 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,834 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,329 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,503 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Damiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 903 Americans named Damiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 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 579 people named Damiya (576 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 802 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 6,152 babies since 1880, Damiya is the fourth most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 89 babies (11%), 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 Damiya
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 Damiya and names like it
- Compare Damiya and DamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDamiya peaked in 2010.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Damiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.