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Damar

#5,908 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Javanese origin

Damar has been given to 1,145 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,908 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Damar, 2025

1 in 221,000

Damar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Damar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Javanese origin

Javanese

What Damar means

Damar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Damar is used in English, Indonesian and Turkish. Its origins include Javanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,140 boys were recorded with the name Damar between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,802 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,290 in 2020 to #5,908 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,919 in 2015 to #5,908 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Damar between 2001 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2001; its best national rank was #15,910 in 2001.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Damar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,908
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Damar 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 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Damars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Damar was born before 2000 — so the typical Damar is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,140
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (268).

Is Damar 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
+55
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−618
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−989
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.5%
Peak was 1990 (37)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,802
1985

Spellings of Damar

Damar is not the most common spelling — Damian is, with 16.0% against Damar's 0.17%.

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 Damar is used

Across 1910–2025, Damar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 881,023 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 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. Damar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Damar around the world

Where Damar 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
    2004–2004
    #3,009
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Damar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,908
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 618
Best rank ever
#1,802
1985
Peak year
1990
37 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,140
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,910
2001
Peak year
2001
5 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Damar

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

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Sibling names for Damar

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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