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Damini

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Damini has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Damini, 2003

1 in 634,000

Damini over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Damini: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Damini means

Damini is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Damini is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 46 girls were recorded with the name Damini between 1994 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1994; its best national rank was #8,269 in 1994.

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 Damini?

Damini had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 634,000
6 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only
1 in 304,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
439,159 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Damini 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 2003 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 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damini. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Daminis were born

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

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
54.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Damini 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (10)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,269
1994

Spellings of Damini

Damini is not the most common spelling — Amina is, with 25.0% against Damini's 0.06%.

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.

Damini around the world

Where Damini 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
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011

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

Damini by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,269
1994
Peak year
1994
10 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Damini

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

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Sibling names for Damini

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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