Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Damien” in the USA?

Number of people named “Damien” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Damien” 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 “Damien” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Damien” by birth year

This chart shows how “Damien” 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
1936 6 0.000002888 6 -100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 -100%
1940 13 0.000005646 13 -100%
1941 9 0.000003694 9 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1946 7 0.000002191 7 -100%
1947 11 0.000003054 11 -100%
1948 11 0.000003186 11 -100%
1949 15 0.000004304 15 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 -100%
1952 21 0.000005529 21 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 17 0.000004271 17 -100%
1955 18 0.000004483 18 -100%
1956 15 0.000003638 15 -100%
1957 26 0.000006187 26 -100%
1958 32 0.000007741 32 -100%
1959 28 0.000006734 28 -100%
1960 37 0.000008907 37 -100%
1961 38 0.000009174 38 -100%
1962 42 0.000010408 42 -100%
1963 35 0.000008842 35 -100%
1964 45 0.000011575 45 -100%
1965 43 0.000011861 43 -100%
1966 35 0.00001007 35 -100%
1967 51 0.000015023 51 -100%
1968 85 0.00002516 85 -100%
1969 93 0.00002676 93 -100%
1970 129 0.000035769 5 124 -92%
1971 154 0.000044867 6 148 -92%
1972 280 0.000089087 6 274 -96%
1973 355 0.000117671 355 -100%
1974 670 0.000220395 12 658 -96%
1975 552 0.000182818 10 542 -96%
1976 675 0.000222457 12 663 -96%
1977 847 0.000266646 13 834 -97%
1978 1522 0.000479541 14 1508 -98%
1979 1344 0.000403968 22 1322 -97%
1980 1351 0.000392219 13 1338 -98%
1981 1049 0.000303234 11 1038 -98%
1982 963 0.000274518 12 951 -98%
1983 797 0.000230125 7 790 -98%
1984 718 0.000205804 10 708 -97%
1985 697 0.000195287 10 687 -97%
1986 650 0.000182734 5 645 -98%
1987 580 0.00016086 580 -100%
1988 668 0.000180783 10 658 -97%
1989 782 0.00020341 8 774 -98%
1990 746 0.000188742 746 -100%
1991 821 0.000210769 8 813 -98%
1992 865 0.000225186 865 -100%
1993 904 0.00023977 904 -100%
1994 976 0.000262531 976 -100%
1995 953 0.000260229 953 -100%
1996 845 0.000231685 5 840 -99%
1997 907 0.000250155 907 -100%
1998 956 0.000259909 6 950 -99%
1999 1129 0.000305642 10 1119 -98%
2000 1303 0.000344718 1303 -100%
2001 1408 0.00037613 6 1402 -99%
2002 1658 0.000443518 6 1652 -99%
2003 1895 0.00049838 5 1890 -99%
2004 1968 0.000515059 11 1957 -99%
2005 1939 0.000504312 1939 -100%
2006 1999 0.000505284 6 1993 -99%
2007 2265 0.000566578 2265 -100%
2008 2118 0.00053884 7 2111 -99%
2009 2013 0.000526939 2013 -100%
2010 1937 0.000524117 1937 -100%
2011 1834 0.000501395 1834 -100%
2012 1666 0.000455519 1666 -100%
2013 1624 0.00044546 5 1619 -99%
2014 1508 0.000406866 1508 -100%
2015 1424 0.00038477 1424 -100%
2016 1304 0.000355439 1304 -100%
2017 1353 0.000378335 1353 -100%
2018 1362 0.000387383 1362 -100%
2019 1245 0.000358693 1245 -100%
2020 1216 0.000364009 1216 -100%
2021 1233 0.000363937 1233 -100%
2022 1102 0.000325733 1102 -100%
2023 1012 0.00030563 1012 -100%
2024 999 0.000300135 999 -100%

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