Damein
#12,450 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Damein has been given to 1,045 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #12,450 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Damein, 2025
1 in 663,000
Damein over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Damein?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,450
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Damein sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damein. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dameins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Damein was born before 1993 — so the typical Damein is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 28.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,045
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (298).
Is Damein 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +17
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.4%
- Peak was 1978 (48)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.5% average annual change
Spellings of Damein
Damein is not the most common spelling — Damian is, with 25.9% against Damein's 0.25%.
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 Damein is used
Across 1910–2025, Damein was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,214,313 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Damein has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Damein around the world
Where Damein 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.
- South Australia1970–1970#540in 1970
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Damein by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Damein
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Damein
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.