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Damiano

#4,155 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Damian

Damiano has been given to 550 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #4,155 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Damiano, 2025

1 in 133,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Damiano: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Damian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Damiano means

Damiano is a form of Damian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Damiano is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Damian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Damiano is pronounced /daˈmja.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 550 boys were recorded with the name Damiano between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1985; its best national rank was #2,181 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,502 in 2020 to #4,155 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,557 in 2015 to #4,155 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 Damiano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 68,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,155
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Damiano 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damiano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Damianos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Damiano was born before 2005 — so the typical Damiano is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
531
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Damiano 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
+575
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,347
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 1985 (25)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,181
1985

Spellings of Damiano

Damiano is not the most common spelling — Damian is, with 47.2% against Damiano's 0.24%.

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 Damiano is used

Across 1910–2025, Damiano was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,334,318 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4South Carolina1 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. Damiano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Damiano around the world

Where Damiano 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
    2008–2022
    #3,450
    in 2022
  • France
    1958–2025
    #3,082
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2024
    #977
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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.

Damiano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,155
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,347
Best rank ever
#2,181
1985
Peak year
1985
25 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
550
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Damiano

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

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Sibling names for Damiano

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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