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Damiana

#7,578 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Damian

Damiana has been given to 712 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #7,578 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Damiana, 2025

1 in 237,000

Damiana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Damiana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Damian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Damiana means

Damiana is a feminine form of Damian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Damiana → Damian. The family’s meaning is “to tame”, recorded in English with the source elements damáō.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Damian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 712 girls were recorded with the name Damiana between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,110 in 1930.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,724 in 2020 to #7,578 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,568 in 2015 to #7,578 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Damiana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,578
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Damiana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damiana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Damianas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Damiana was born before 2002 — so the typical Damiana is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
660
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Choose a decade

2000s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (229).

Is Damiana 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
+8,247
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,146
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+990
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.4%
Peak was 2006 (33)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,110
1930

Spellings of Damiana

Damiana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 55.2% against Damiana's 0.11%.

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 Damiana is used

Across 1910–2025, Damiana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 382,347 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Damiana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Damiana around the world

Where Damiana 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
    2013–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1967–2022
    #7,122
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1947–1971
    #724
    in 1971

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

Damiana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,578
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,146
Best rank ever
#3,110
1930
Peak year
2006
33 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
712
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Damiana

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

DamariaDamiyahDamarizDamaniDamariDamiyaDamayaDamaraDamoniAurianaMorganaIllyanaSolianaJaiyanaDamiahKaylanaAllianaTorianaEliyanaBriyanaLeilanaSylvanaLivianaDaviana

Sibling names for Damiana

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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