Damien
The boy's name Damien has been in the national records since 1936, with 65,018 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 352nd. About 63,000 Damiens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Damien boys named Damien
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 65,018
- Estimated living today
- 63,000
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 182nd
- Rank in 2025
- 352nd
- First recorded
- 1936
- Girls / boys
- 261 / 64,757
How old the living Damiens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 65,018 babies given the name since 1936, about 63,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Damiens
- Damien Chazelle (born 1985)French-American filmmaker
- Damien Duff (born 1979)Irish footballer and manager
- Damien Hirst (born 1965)English sculptor and installation artist
- Damien Rice (born 1973)Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
- Damien Perquis (born 1984)French and Polish association football player
- Damien Plessis (born 1988)French footballer
- Damien Delaney (born 1981)Irish association football player
- Damien Le Tallec (born 1990)French association football player
People named Damien with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Damien is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Damien is most concentrated in Hawaii (2.8×), Nevada (2.7×), Arizona (2.2×), New Mexico (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Damien peaked:
Damien elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Damien | 126,380 | 10th |
| Ireland boys | Damien | 6,406 | 35th |
| England and Wales boys | Damien | 2,281 | 319th |
| Belgium boys | Damien +1 spelling | 1,312 | 99th |
| Switzerland boys | Damien | 830 | 126th |
| Scotland boys | Damien | 539 | 131st |
| Northern Ireland boys | Damien | 105 | 134th |
| France girls | Damien | 40 | 1,099th |
| Poland boys | Damien | 22 birth registrations | 333rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Damien: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Damien | 144 | 0.012% | 403rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Damien | 679 | 0.156% | 33rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Damien | 7 | 0.011% | 86th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Damien is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.19% of children were given it – 134 of them.
Damien: rank by region
In 2022, Damien was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Damien | 866 | 5 |
In 2017, Damien was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Damien | 10 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Damien by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 18 | 323rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Damien among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Damien | 81 | 197 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Damien against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.