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Damen

#5,911 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Damen has been given to 2,459 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #5,911 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 74 recorded.

Babies named Damen, 2025

1 in 221,000

Damen over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Damen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Damen means

Damen is a given name.

The naming story behind Damen

Wikidata records Damen as a given name. The entity identifier is Q51960367, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,459 boys were recorded with the name Damen between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 74 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,042 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,434 in 2020 to #5,911 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,094 in 2015 to #5,911 in 2025.

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.

How common is Damen?

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
#5,911
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Damen 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 Damen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Damens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Damen was born before 1997 — so the typical Damen is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,459
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (590).

Is Damen 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
+1,441
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,477
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,817
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.3%
Peak was 2003 (74)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,042
1978

Spellings of Damen

Damen is not the most common spelling — James is, with 75.8% against Damen's 0.04%.

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 Damen is used

Across 1910–2025, Damen was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 184,713 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Indiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New 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. Damen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Damen around the world

Where Damen 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.

  • Canada
    1995–2016
    #2,441
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1970–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Damen

People whose public names include Damen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Damen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,911
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,477
Best rank ever
#1,042
1978
Peak year
2003
74 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,459
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Damen

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

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Names with a curve like Damen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Damen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TyranRashidAkilDeshonSanjayKhristopherKendricKarlosDomonicKamalArikChristofer

Sibling names for Damen

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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