Damya
Damya was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,173 among girls’ names; 1,461 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Damya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damya?
#6,173 among girls’ names, 2025
Damya fell from #3,443 in 2015 to #6,173 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 11.8 per million.
102 babies in 2008, the peak
Damya peaked in 2008, when 102 girls were given it, #2,034 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,173 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,007 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,013 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,050 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,869 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,668 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,859 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,476 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,711 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 45 | #3,478 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,443 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,788 | 34.7 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,464 | 41.6 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,638 | 38.6 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,669 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,153 | 51.2 |
| 2009 | 86 | #2,274 | 46.8 |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,034 | 53.9 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,218 | 46.3 |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,006 | 52.1 |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,091 | 48.2 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,264 | 41.9 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,414 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,103 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,562 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,601 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,992 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,130 | 9.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Damya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damya, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,461 Americans ever recorded as Damya. The median Damya alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 976 people named Damya (971 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,332 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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 | 989 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 459 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,152 babies since 1880, Damya is the most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 89 babies (21%), the second 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 Damya
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 Damya and names like it
- Compare Damya and DamiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDamya peaked in 2008.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damya since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Damya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.