Damiyah
Damiyah was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,903 among girls’ names; 1,191 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Damiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damiyah?
#4,903 among girls’ names, 2025
Damiyah fell from #2,656 in 2015 to #4,903 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.5 to 16.8 per million.
79 babies in 2016, the peak
Damiyah peaked in 2016, when 79 girls were given it, #2,369 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,903 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,407 | 19.8 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,066 | 22.4 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,056 | 21.9 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,790 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,756 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,858 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,756 | 36.4 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,608 | 38.8 |
| 2016 | 79 | #2,369 | 44.6 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 67 | #2,656 | 37.5 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,850 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 75 | #2,416 | 42.7 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,501 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 56 | #3,021 | 31.8 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,704 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,166 | 28.8 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,167 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,613 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 48 | #3,378 | 25.2 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,731 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,287 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,461 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,367 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,358 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,082 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,830 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Damiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damiyah, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,191 Americans ever recorded as Damiyah. The median Damiyah alive today is 12 years old; half are between 8 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 661 people named Damiyah (653 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 948 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 487 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 696 |
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 Damiyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,411 | 0.3× |
Where Damiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Damiyah is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1998 it was given 2.3 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 girls’ 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 Damiyah 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 6,094 babies since 1880, Damiyah is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 89 babies (30%), the 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 Damiyah
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 Damiyah and names like it
- Compare Damiyah and DamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDamiyah peaked in 2016.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Damiyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Damiyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.