Daymon
#5,080 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Daymon has been given to 1,723 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #5,080 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Daymon, 2025
1 in 174,000
Daymon over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Daymon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 89,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,080
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Daymon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Daymon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Daymons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Daymon was born before 1993 — so the typical Daymon is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 19.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,475
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 19.1% of all recorded uses (329).
Is Daymon 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
- +1,838
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −186
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −157
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 38.8%
- Peak was 1998 (49)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Daymon
Daymon is not the most common spelling — Raymond is, with 52.7% against Daymon's 0.12%.
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 Daymon is used
Across 1910–2025, Daymon was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 522,323 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Daymon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Daymon around the world
Where Daymon 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.
- France2003–2025#3,410in 2025
- Canada1992–2022#2,335in 2022
- South Australia1959–2013#754in 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.
Daymon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Daymon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Daymon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.