Damara
- #9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 1980 · 29 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,030since 1962
Damara over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Damara has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 |
| 2005 | #5,437 | 23 |
| 2004 | #3,180 | 48 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 |
| 2001 | #4,321 | 28 |
| 2000 | #3,886 | 32 |
| 1999 | #4,718 | 23 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 |
| 1997 | #4,125 | 26 |
| 1996 | #3,632 | 30 |
| 1995 | #3,422 | 32 |
| 1994 | #5,016 | 19 |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 |
| 1989 | #4,358 | 21 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #4,286 | 17 |
| 1982 | #3,530 | 23 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #3,002 | 29 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 |
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First appearance
1962
The first year at least five girls were named Damara! It came in at #6,578, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1962–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Damara is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Damara in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 2,685 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #9,457)
- 1,409 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #9,457)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1980 at #3,002 (29 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 38,255
- Highest: 1 in 38,255 girls born in 2004 were named Damara (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,002 in 1980, was only 1 in 57,252 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 24.5% of all girls named Damara (252) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #6,539 (1965) | #6,578 |
| 1970s | 118 | #4,052 (1979) | #5,055 |
| 1980s | 202 | #3,002 (1980) | #4,101 |
| 1990s | 243 | #3,422 (1995) | #4,355 |
| 2000s | 252 | #3,180 (2004) | #5,542 |
| 2010s | 147 | #5,358 (2011) | #8,603 |
| 2020s | 52 | #8,032 (2022) | #9,596 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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