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Damion vs Damond

American parents have registered 16,927 Damions since 1880, against 2,148 Damonds. Damion is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Damion against Damond, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Damion Damond

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 67 years in which either name was published, Damion for 66 years and Damond for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Damion Damond
Total US births 16,9272,148
Most in one year 579115
Babies in 2025 626
Estimated living today 16,0002,000
Median age today 2734
Peak year 20021974
Best rank 432nd boys755th boys
Rank in 2025 2,258th10,695th
First recorded 19571962
Girls / boys 39 / 16,8885 / 2,143

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 Damonds alive today are over 34; half the Damions are over 27. That is 7 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.

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