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Damari vs Damita

American parents have registered 6,358 Damaris since 1880, against 1,507 Damitas. Damari is still ahead, with 262 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damari against Damita, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damari Damita

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 76 years in which either name was published, Damita for 43 years and Damari for 33 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Damari Damita
Total US births 6,3581,507
Most in one year 321118
Babies in 2025 262under 5
Estimated living today 6,3001,400
Median age today 1158
Peak year 20161961
Best rank 782nd boys997th girls
Rank in 2025 958thunranked
First recorded 19681950
Girls / boys 811 / 5,5471,507 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Damitas alive today are over 58; half the Damaris are over 11. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Damari Damita
England and Wales 1373

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Damari and Damita.