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Daman

Boys' name

From Gujarati દમણ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Daman has been given to 666 babies in the U.S. since 1967. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Daman, 2021

1 in 678,000

Daman over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Daman: meaning, origin, and history

From Gujarati દમણ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sanskrit

What Daman means

Daman is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

*The place name is from Gujarati દમણ (damaṇ). *The given name derives from the Sanskrit equivalent of Ancient Greek Damian, the brother of Cosmas.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Daman (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Daman is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Daman comes through Gujarati દમણ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Daman is pronounced /dəˈmɑːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 666 boys were recorded with the name Daman between 1967 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1976; its best national rank was #1,544 in 1976.

How common is Daman?

Daman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Daman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Damans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Daman was born before 1990 — so the typical Daman is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
666
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (206).

Is Daman rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (35)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,544
1976

Spellings of Daman

Daman is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 20.3% against Daman's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Daman is used

Across 1910–2025, Daman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,337,241 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Daman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Daman around the world

Where Daman ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2016
    #4,023
    in 2016
  • France
    1982–2024
    #5,560
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2001–2010
    #2,163
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1981–2000
    #556
    in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Daman by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,544
1976
Peak year
1976
35 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
666
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Daman

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Daman

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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