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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 98,247 of them was named Damani, which outranked 61.0% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,126Waldo19
- #2,126Waymond19
- #2,126West19
- #2,203Damani18
- #2,203Antoin18
- #2,203Antonie18
- #2,203Ara18
- #2,279Ajay17
- #2,279Alaric17
- #2,279Alvino17
Tied with 75 names at #2,203; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.