Damani
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #2,258 for boys in 2025, 62 births
Given to boys 79.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 158 births
- Debut · boys
- 18 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,627since 1971
Damani over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 | #2,258 | 62 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #2,028 | 75 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | #2,168 | 67 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #2,079 | 70 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #2,020 | 72 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | #2,262 | 60 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #2,065 | 67 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | #2,047 | 69 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #1,910 | 76 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #1,436 | 115 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 | #1,361 | 124 |
| 2012 | #3,854 | 40 | #1,155 | 158 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 | #1,999 | 68 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 | #2,144 | 62 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #2,001 | 70 |
| 2007 | #5,526 | 25 | #2,164 | 62 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #2,176 | 59 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #1,983 | 63 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #1,502 | 89 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 | #1,578 | 80 |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | #1,483 | 85 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #1,379 | 92 |
| 2000 | #4,981 | 23 | #1,370 | 92 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #1,342 | 89 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #1,449 | 78 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #1,693 | 58 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #2,017 | 43 |
| 1995 | — | #1,887 | 45 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,123 | 38 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,162 | 36 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,804 | 46 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,005 | 14 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,095 | 12 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,751 | 14 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,832 | 25 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,736 | 26 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,203 | 18 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Damani! It came in at #2,203, and was given to 18 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Damani is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#486 · 1 in 4,070
- New York#540 · 1 in 5,014
- Michigan#804 · 1 in 9,949
- California#1,306 · 1 in 24,332
Best ever in a state: #198 in District of Columbia, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Maryland | #486 | 7 | 1 in 4,070 |
| New York | #540 | 23 | 1 in 5,014 |
| Michigan | #804 | 6 | 1 in 9,949 |
| California | #1,306 | 10 | 1 in 24,332 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Damani
- 230 spots since 2024 (#2,028 → #2,258)
- 91 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #2,258)
- 348 spots since 2015 (#1,910 → #2,258)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2012 at #1,155 (158 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,006 boys born in 2012 were named Damani (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,550 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.2% of all boys named Damani (871) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 138 | #1,736 (1973) | #3,068 |
| 1980s | 16 | #5,619 (1982) | #6,380 |
| 1990s | 447 | #1,342 (1999) | #2,054 |
| 2000s | 756 | #1,370 (2000) | #1,776 |
| 2010s | 871 | #1,155 (2012) | #1,840 |
| 2020s | 399 | #2,028 (2024) | #2,165 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Damani in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 252,421 of them was named Damani, which outranked 32.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,122Zikeria8
- #10,122Zyan8
- #10,122Zyanna8
- #11,138Damani7
- #11,138Aaliayah7
- #11,138Aaminah7
- #11,138Aanchal7
- #12,426Aailyah6
- #12,426Aaisha6
- #12,426Aajah6
Tied with 1,287 names at #11,138; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 24,505 of them was named Damani, which outranked 87.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,436Tremayne79
- #1,436Tyrin79
- #1,436Zander79
- #1,449Damani78
- #1,449Arnulfo78
- #1,449Ashley78
- #1,449Eliot78
- #1,459Franco77
- #1,459Geovanni77
- #1,459Issiah77
Tied with 9 names at #1,449; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.