Damasus
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Damasus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- IDIndonesia1 in 369K◐
- NGNigeria1 in 857K
- MYMalaysia1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | 246 | 32% |
| US United States | 172 | 22% |
| NG Nigeria | 85 | 11% |
| IN India | 70 | 9% |
| MY Malaysia | 61 | 8% |
≈634 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian26334%
- English18524%
- Swahili669%
- 628%
- Spanish476%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 263 | 34% |
| English | 185 | 24% |
| Swahili | 66 | 9% |
| 62 | 8% | |
| Spanish | 47 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Damasus Ib. 305PTpope
- Damasus IIb. 1000DEpope
- Damasus Fuchsb. 1862DEGerman Franciscan friar and local historian (1862-1938)
- Henricus Kockenb. 1882NLnot in their usual nameDutch stained-glass artist (1882-1955)
- Adolf Damasus Trappb. 1907DEfriar, church historian (1907-1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 15 | #14,023 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #71,511 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 2 | #29 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #70,497 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #159 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Damasus?
- Our records include 634 bearers of Damasus across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Damasus have the most bearers?
- Damasus is most frequently recorded in Indonesia.
- Is Damasus a male or female name?
- Damasus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Damasus mean?
- Recorded meaning: pope
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Damasus”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.