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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 96,521 of them was named Damani, which outranked 62.1% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,414Zelina18
- #6,414Zhane18
- #6,414Zohra18
- #6,691Damani17
- #6,691Abena17
- #6,691Adama17
- #6,691Adaora17
- #6,967Aairah16
- #6,967Aalyah16
- #6,967Aaron16
Tied with 275 names at #6,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 24,993 of them was named Damani, which outranked 85.3% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,060Sameer71
- #2,060Santiel71
- #2,060Tegan71
- #2,079Damani70
- #2,079Darion70
- #2,079Demetri70
- #2,079Dempsey70
- #2,096Armin69
- #2,096Clive69
- #2,096Deonte69
Tied with 16 names at #2,079; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.