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How popular is “Damian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Damian” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Damian” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Damian” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Damian” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Damian” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Damian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Damian” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 -100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 14 0.000006116 14 -100%
1923 9 0.000003909 9 -100%
1924 10 0.000004199 10 -100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1927 7 0.000003018 7 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 6 0.000002737 6 -100%
1930 11 0.000004948 11 -100%
1931 11 0.000005227 11 -100%
1932 17 0.000008052 17 -100%
1933 13 0.000006502 13 -100%
1934 9 0.000004334 9 -100%
1935 9 0.000004306 9 -100%
1936 10 0.000004813 10 -100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 -100%
1938 17 0.000007683 17 -100%
1939 16 0.000007261 16 -100%
1940 17 0.000007383 17 -100%
1941 17 0.000006977 17 -100%
1942 16 0.000005857 16 -100%
1943 25 0.000008857 25 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 14 -100%
1945 28 0.000010554 28 -100%
1946 18 0.000005633 18 -100%
1947 24 0.000006662 24 -100%
1948 32 0.000009269 32 -100%
1949 40 0.000011478 40 -100%
1950 37 0.000010561 37 -100%
1951 38 0.000010316 38 -100%
1952 57 0.000015008 57 -100%
1953 53 0.000013753 53 -100%
1954 68 0.000017082 68 -100%
1955 88 0.000021917 88 -100%
1956 88 0.000021343 88 -100%
1957 87 0.000020704 87 -100%
1958 81 0.000019594 81 -100%
1959 103 0.000024772 103 -100%
1960 132 0.000031778 132 -100%
1961 143 0.000034522 143 -100%
1962 163 0.000040393 163 -100%
1963 170 0.000042949 170 -100%
1964 183 0.000047073 183 -100%
1965 162 0.000044684 162 -100%
1966 171 0.000049199 171 -100%
1967 173 0.000050959 173 -100%
1968 291 0.000086135 5 286 -97%
1969 291 0.000083733 9 282 -94%
1970 347 0.000096215 8 339 -95%
1971 380 0.000110711 9 371 -95%
1972 637 0.000202673 14 623 -96%
1973 676 0.000224072 18 658 -95%
1974 851 0.000279934 22 829 -95%
1975 912 0.000302047 21 891 -95%
1976 1005 0.000331213 12 993 -98%
1977 1069 0.000336535 15 1054 -97%
1978 854 0.000269072 7 847 -98%
1979 694 0.000208596 16 678 -95%
1980 594 0.000172449 10 584 -97%
1981 522 0.000150894 5 517 -98%
1982 583 0.000166193 583 -100%
1983 550 0.000158806 8 542 -97%
1984 548 0.000157076 8 540 -97%
1985 507 0.000142052 507 -100%
1986 521 0.000146469 7 514 -97%
1987 537 0.000148934 537 -100%
1988 626 0.000169416 6 620 -98%
1989 777 0.00020211 777 -100%
1990 790 0.000199875 8 782 -98%
1991 970 0.00024902 6 964 -99%
1992 1093 0.000284541 6 1087 -99%
1993 1139 0.0003021 6 1133 -99%
1994 1358 0.000365284 9 1349 -99%
1995 1357 0.000370547 7 1350 -99%
1996 1413 0.000387421 5 1408 -99%
1997 1513 0.000417293 6 1507 -99%
1998 1576 0.00042847 9 1567 -99%
1999 1540 0.000416907 1540 -100%
2000 1720 0.000455038 1720 -100%
2001 1963 0.000524391 1963 -100%
2002 2350 0.00062863 5 2345 -100%
2003 2454 0.000645396 2454 -100%
2004 2537 0.000663976 8 2529 -99%
2005 2635 0.000685333 5 2630 -100%
2006 2983 0.000754008 6 2977 -100%
2007 2989 0.000747683 2989 -100%
2008 3077 0.000782819 3077 -100%
2009 3354 0.00087797 5 3349 -100%
2010 3373 0.000912673 7 3366 -100%
2011 3021 0.000825908 8 3013 -99%
2012 3860 0.001055404 3860 -100%
2013 3985 0.001093078 11 3974 -99%
2014 3886 0.001048464 6 3880 -100%
2015 3491 0.000943281 3491 -100%
2016 3346 0.00091204 3346 -100%
2017 3350 0.00093675 6 3344 -100%
2018 3558 0.001011975 7 3551 -100%
2019 3452 0.000994545 3452 -100%
2020 3337 0.000998929 3337 -100%
2021 3299 0.000973745 3299 -100%
2022 3464 0.001023902 3464 -100%
2023 3291 0.000993901 3291 -100%
2024 3233 0.000971308 3233 -100%

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