Damen
#5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 70 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,459since 1963
Damen over time
Rank among boys' names. Damen has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #7,257 | 11 |
| 2023 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #3,103 | 38 |
| 2018 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #3,518 | 31 |
| 2016 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #3,085 | 37 |
| 2014 | #2,885 | 40 |
| 2013 | #2,402 | 52 |
| 2012 | #2,488 | 50 |
| 2011 | #2,403 | 52 |
| 2010 | #2,324 | 55 |
| 2009 | #2,585 | 48 |
| 2008 | #2,717 | 45 |
| 2007 | #2,442 | 52 |
| 2006 | #2,037 | 65 |
| 2005 | #1,943 | 65 |
| 2004 | #1,834 | 67 |
| 2003 | #1,673 | 74 |
| 2002 | #1,888 | 59 |
| 2001 | #1,893 | 58 |
| 2000 | #1,848 | 57 |
| 1999 | #1,692 | 62 |
| 1998 | #1,871 | 52 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #1,616 | 60 |
| 1995 | #1,841 | 47 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #1,699 | 51 |
| 1992 | #1,844 | 44 |
| 1991 | #1,359 | 69 |
| 1990 | #1,420 | 62 |
| 1989 | #1,793 | 42 |
| 1988 | #1,815 | 37 |
| 1987 | #1,534 | 46 |
| 1986 | #2,057 | 28 |
| 1985 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #1,764 | 32 |
| 1983 | #1,687 | 34 |
| 1982 | #2,059 | 26 |
| 1981 | #1,865 | 30 |
| 1980 | #1,449 | 43 |
| 1979 | #1,193 | 58 |
| 1978 | #1,040 | 70 |
| 1977 | #1,312 | 47 |
| 1976 | #1,286 | 47 |
| 1975 | #1,114 | 57 |
| 1974 | #1,124 | 53 |
| 1973 | #1,612 | 29 |
| 1972 | #1,603 | 29 |
| 1971 | #2,973 | 11 |
| 1970 | #1,889 | 22 |
| 1969 | #2,861 | 10 |
| 1968 | #2,311 | 13 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
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| 1964 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Damen! It came in at #3,646, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1965, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Damen is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#640 · 1 in 9,305
- Pennsylvania#684 · 1 in 15,214
- California#989 · 1 in 19,970
Best ever in a state: #441 in Indiana, 1973.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #640 | 9 | 1 in 9,305 |
| Pennsylvania | #684 | 5 | 1 in 15,214 |
| California | #989 | 9 | 1 in 19,970 |
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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 Damen
- 1,396 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #5,861)
- 2,443 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #5,861)
- 2,776 spots since 2015 (#3,085 → #5,861)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1978 at #1,040 (70 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,455 boys born in 1978 were named Damen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.0% of all boys named Damen (590) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 48 | #2,311 (1968) | #3,229 |
| 1970s | 423 | #1,040 (1978) | #1,515 |
| 1980s | 342 | #1,449 (1980) | #1,825 |
| 1990s | 540 | #1,359 (1991) | #1,726 |
| 2000s | 590 | #1,673 (2003) | #2,086 |
| 2010s | 416 | #2,324 (2010) | #2,934 |
| 2020s | 100 | #3,418 (2020) | #5,873 |
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.
Damen in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 29,682 of them was named Damen, which outranked 83.1% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,177Sandy59
- #1,177Torrence59
- #1,177Vidal59
- #1,193Damen58
- #1,193Cliffton58
- #1,193Dimitrios58
- #1,193Dwain58
- #1,206Alden57
- #1,206Brion57
- #1,206Bruno57
Tied with 12 names at #1,193; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.