Damjan

Boys' name

English equivalent of Damien

Damjan has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2024. 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 2024, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Damjan, 2024

1 in 669,000

Damjan over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Damjan: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Damien

Greek

What Damjan means

Damjan is a English equivalent of Damien.

Origin, language, and formation

Damjan is used in Icelandic and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Damien and Damian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Damjan is pronounced [ˈtamjan].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Damjan between 2024 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2024; its best national rank was #12,728 in 2024.

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.

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How common is Damjan?

Damjan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Damjan 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Damjan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Damjans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Damjan was born before 2024 — so the typical Damjan is around 1 today.

Median birth year: 2024; About 1 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Damjan 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2024 (5)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #12,728; 2024

Spellings of Damjan

Damjan is not the most common spelling — Damian is, with 32.6% against Damjan's <0.01%.

Damian32.6%109,920
Damon20.4%68,841
Damien19.2%64,757
Darian5.1%17,041
Damion5.0%16,888
Daquan2.4%7,970
Davian2.0%6,715
Dameon1.3%4,267

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.

Damjan around the world

Where Damjan 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.

France
2002–2019
#6,331
in 2019
Canada
2011–2018
#2,536
in 2018
South Australia
1991–2013
#754
in 2013

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

Damjan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #12,728; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 5 that year
First recorded: 2024
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Damjan

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

Damase Damiam Damell Damiun Damaun Damilo Damirr Damisi Damaje Dameko Sajjan Damus Damiene Damal Dametre Damarte Damarlo Damarye Damyron Damaire Damiani Damarae Damonni Damonei

Sibling names for Damjan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Noah Alianna Xochitl Leonor Elina Malka Eleni Emerie

For a brother

Jeremias Bjorn Kylo Evans Shimon Rio Rome Shlomo

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