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Damir

#982 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Damir has been given to 3,449 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #982 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 316 recorded.

Babies named Damir, 2025

1 in 14,200

Damir over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Damir: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Slavic languages

What Damir means

Damir has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: “to give + peace”.

The naming story behind Damir

One of the source’s documented entries for Damir records a proposed meaning of given + peace, world.

An additional editorial entry explicitly leaves the meaning of Damir uncertain. That qualification belongs to its own naming route, even when another tradition using the same spelling has a known translation. The spelling alone cannot decide which history a family intends.

Origin, language, and formation

Damir is used in English, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Damir is pronounced /damir/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,444 boys were recorded with the name Damir between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 316 in 2024; its best national rank was #796 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #951 in 2020 to #982 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,569 in 2015 to #982 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Damir between 2015 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2015; its best national rank was #17,077 in 2015.

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 Damir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,200
233 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,330
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#982
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,863 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Damir 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,863 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Damirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Damir was born before 2019 — so the typical Damir is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,444
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (1,610).

Is Damir 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
−186
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−31
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+587
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.26×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.7%
Peak was 2024 (316)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#796
2024

Spellings of Damir

Damir is not the most common spelling — David is, with 82.4% against Damir's 0.08%.

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 Damir is used

Across 2016–2025, Damir was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 2,174 boys, against 1 in 7,214 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

246 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 2,174
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 2,632
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 4,167
  4. 4Florida1 in 4,545
  5. 5Georgia1 in 4,762
  6. 6Michigan1 in 4,762
  7. 7Missouri1 in 4,762
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 4,762

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.

Damir around the world

Where Damir 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
    2007–2025
    #771
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #244
    in 2025
  • France
    1967–2025
    #927
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2024–2025
    #393
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1962–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Notable people named Damir

People whose public names include Damir, 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.

Damir in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Damir. Linked forms have their own page here.

DemirDalemirDalimil

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Damir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#982
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 31
Best rank ever
#796
2024
Peak year
2024
316 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,444
Count in 2025
233

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#17,077
2015
Peak year
2015
5 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Damir

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

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Names with a curve like Damir

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

SevenCalumKhaiTeoDakariAzaelAspenZenJakaiJasielColesonOsiris

Sibling names for Damir

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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