Damion
Last seen for girls in 1980 at #10,392 · #2,258 for boys in 2025, 62 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1977 · 496 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 16,888since 1957
Damion over time
Rank among boys' names. Damion has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | — | #2,258 | 62 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,028 | 75 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,754 | 93 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,022 | 75 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,479 | 121 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,386 | 126 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,386 | 128 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,244 | 148 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,213 | 151 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,159 | 165 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,216 | 151 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,110 | 172 | |
| 2013 | — | #849 | 251 | |
| 2012 | — | #942 | 216 | |
| 2011 | — | #780 | 288 | |
| 2010 | — | #695 | 335 | |
| 2009 | — | #661 | 372 | |
| 2008 | — | #601 | 418 | |
| 2007 | — | #541 | 473 | |
| 2006 | — | #494 | 524 | |
| 2005 | — | #508 | 484 | |
| 2004 | — | #464 | 550 | |
| 2003 | — | #472 | 531 | |
| 2002 | — | #432 | 579 | |
| 2001 | — | #442 | 547 | |
| 2000 | — | #433 | 562 | |
| 1999 | — | #450 | 509 | |
| 1998 | — | #435 | 526 | |
| 1997 | — | #482 | 447 | |
| 1996 | — | #486 | 440 | |
| 1995 | — | #476 | 454 | |
| 1994 | — | #495 | 413 | |
| 1993 | — | #549 | 339 | |
| 1992 | — | #580 | 309 | |
| 1991 | — | #572 | 312 | |
| 1990 | — | #675 | 225 | |
| 1989 | — | #719 | 189 | |
| 1988 | — | #751 | 159 | |
| 1987 | — | #749 | 149 | |
| 1986 | — | #683 | 175 | |
| 1985 | — | #688 | 166 | |
| 1984 | — | #591 | 205 | |
| 1983 | — | #643 | 178 | |
| 1982 | — | #601 | 205 | |
| 1981 | — | #574 | 221 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #543 | 250 |
| 1979 | — | #434 | 341 | |
| 1978 | — | #384 | 413 | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #352 | 496 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #358 | 456 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #400 | 367 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #415 | 355 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #519 | 229 |
| 1972 | — | #514 | 235 | |
| 1971 | — | #707 | 136 | |
| 1970 | — | #712 | 134 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,008 | 58 | |
| 1968 | — | #844 | 74 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,411 | 29 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,891 | 17 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,987 | 16 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,900 | 18 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,044 | 8 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,757 | 21 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,337 | 7 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Damion! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Damion is popular in 1980
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#248 · 1 in 2,126
- North Carolina#268 · 1 in 2,257
- Louisiana#326 · 1 in 2,285
- Kansas#331 · 1 in 3,582
- Michigan#357 · 1 in 4,489
Best ever in a state: #119 in District of Columbia, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #248 | 11 | 1 in 2,126 |
| North Carolina | #268 | 17 | 1 in 2,257 |
| Louisiana | #326 | 16 | 1 in 2,285 |
| Kansas | #331 | 5 | 1 in 3,582 |
| Michigan | #357 | 15 | 1 in 4,489 |
| Missouri | #384 | 7 | 1 in 5,336 |
| Wisconsin | #386 | 6 | 1 in 5,876 |
| New Jersey | #399 | 9 | 1 in 4,748 |
| Arizona | #402 | 6 | 1 in 3,754 |
| Georgia | #420 | 10 | 1 in 4,118 |
| Illinois | #501 | 14 | 1 in 6,172 |
| Ohio | #556 | 7 | 1 in 11,654 |
| Florida | #559 | 9 | 1 in 6,639 |
| New York | #582 | 14 | 1 in 8,038 |
| Texas | #598 | 18 | 1 in 7,413 |
| California | #645 | 21 | 1 in 9,156 |
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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 Damion
- 230 spots since 2024 (#2,028 → #2,258)
- 872 spots since 2020 (#1,386 → #2,258)
- 1,042 spots since 2015 (#1,216 → #2,258)
- Biggest jump: 567 spots in 1968 (#1,411 → #844)
- Biggest drop: 261 spots in 2014 (#849 → #1,110)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1977 at #352 (496 births)
- Births halved by 1981, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 45 yrs · run 1970–2013
- Highest: 1 in 3,313 boys born in 1977 were named Damion (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,550 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.8% of all boys named Damion (5,040) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 253 | #844 (1968) | #2,124 |
| 1970s | 3,162 | #352 (1977) | #480 |
| 1980s | 1,897 | #543 (1980) | #654 |
| 1990s | 3,974 | #435 (1998) | #520 |
| 2000s | 5,040 | #432 (2002) | #505 |
| 2010s | 2,005 | #695 (2010) | #1,059 |
| 2020s | 552 | #1,386 (2020) | #1,821 |
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.
Damion in 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
Top boys' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 332,061 of them was named Damion, which outranked 14.5% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,769 names at #10,392; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,783,951 boys got a published name in 1980; 1 in 7,136 of them was named Damion, which outranked 92.6% of the 7,293 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).