Damian
Damian places #109 across the country in 2025, holding steady. Its record runs from 1912 through a 2013 peak, 109,920 children in all.
What Damian carries
Damian · Greek
“taming”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
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Five printables for Damian, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Damian since 1912
Damian peaked in 2013 at #98; #109 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Damian is most common
Among the states, Damian takes its largest share in Nevada, 0.48% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with California and Texas next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Damian
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Margot
#102 in 2025 · Greek
Myles
#100 in 2025 · Greek
Milo
#119 in 2025 · Greek
Lydia
#92 in 2025 · Greek
Angel
#67 in 2025 · Greek
Andres
#200 in 2025 · Greek
Sophie
#55 in 2025 · Greek
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About Damian
Where does Damian rank right now?
Damian places #109 across the country in 2025, holding steady. The chart above draws the whole run since 1912, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Damian?
“taming” is the meaning our source sets down, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Damian?
Cora, Margot and Myles sit nearest to Damian on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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