Damone
Damone was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 1,259 Americans have been recorded with it between 1959 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Damone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Damone mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Damone is “a male given name of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Damone?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,466, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1974, the peak
Damone peaked in 1974, when 42 boys were given it, #1,315 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #8,466 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,962 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,167 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,995 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,212 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,349 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,001 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,696 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,174 | 9.5 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,924 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #5,780 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,719 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 14 | #6,056 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,472 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,294 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,372 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,133 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,401 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,700 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,349 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,633 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,134 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,196 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,635 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,656 | 11.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,496 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,728 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 25 | #2,992 | 13.3 |
| 1996 | 19 | #3,563 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,329 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,128 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,720 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 36 | #2,132 | 18.0 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,866 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,971 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,484 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,089 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,577 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,022 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,616 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,380 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,423 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,142 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,280 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,131 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,171 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,217 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 28 | #1,832 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 38 | #1,456 | 24.2 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,511 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 42 | #1,315 | 26.7 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,617 | 18.6 |
| 1972 | 34 | #1,457 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 25 | #1,792 | 14.1 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,752 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,334 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,584 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 13 | #2,261 | 7.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #1,978 | 9.0 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,649 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,685 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,221 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,373 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,728 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,137 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,110 | 2.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Damone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damone has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damone, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,259 Americans ever recorded as Damone. The median Damone alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 917 people named Damone (46 women and girls, 871 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,165 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 348 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 357 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 318 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 121 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,182 babies since 1880, Damone is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 none of their 166 babies recorded by SSA was a Damone (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Damone
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 Damone and names like it
- Compare Damone and DamaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDamone peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damone since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Damone.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Damone alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.