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Damion

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Damion is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 74 births. Its best rank was 352nd, in 1977.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
740.00% of boys
Peak year
2002579 births
Best rank
#352in 1977
Since 1957
16,825people given the name
Babies named Damion, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

16,825 boys have been named Damion in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 579 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 30%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Damion
1950s5
1960s253
1970s3,162
1980s1,897
1990s3,974
2000s5,040
2010s2,005
2020s489

In 2002, its biggest year

Damion was the 432nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2002 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2002.

Names that rose and fell with Damion

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.