Damen vs Damon
American parents have registered 69,157 Damons since 1880, against 2,459 Damens. Damon is still ahead, with 604 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Damen Damon
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
Damon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2009, when Damen had 48 and Damon had 521.
Side by side
| Damen | Damon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,459 | 69,157 |
| Most in one year | 74 | 2,478 |
| Babies in 2025 | 15 | 604 |
| Estimated living today | 2,400 | 62,000 |
| Median age today | 27 | 39 |
| Peak year | 2003 | 1976 |
| Best rank | 1,673rd boys | 104th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,861st | 501st |
| First recorded | 1963 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,459 | 316 / 68,841 |
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 Damons alive today are over 39; half the Damens are over 27. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Damen Illinois (7.3×), California (2.8×), Pennsylvania (1.5×)
- Damon the District of Columbia (1.8×), Indiana (1.7×), Louisiana (1.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Damen and Damon.