Damian

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Damian is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 88th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Greek Damianos, the name of the brother of Cosmas (see Cosmo).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 358◐
  • UYUruguay1 in 655
  • PYParaguay1 in 834

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈368K ●

across 13 countries

#619 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
440 ●

1.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 208 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

DamianLatin · Spanish●2.3M records
ΔαμιανGreek · Greek●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Damiano in IT Italy, FR France, PH Philippines and Damiao in BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Greek Damianos, the name of the brother of Cosmas (see Cosmo). The two brothers were martyred together at

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Damian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#881,903,284979K rec.—992Damian171
PL Poland—183,835△266 rec.1 in 208184KDamian6
MX Mexico#348106,879152K rec.—786Damian180
PE Peru#42682,705116K rec.——Damian61
US United States#91478,204324K rec.1 in 4.3K78KDamian440
BR Brazil#33167,50373K rec.1 in 3.1K79KDamiao96
AU Australia#37450,68337K rec.—4Damian228
GB United Kingdom#48348,22829K rec.——Damian215
PY Paraguay#6737,81120K rec.——Damian31
CL Chile#33433,8613.3K rec.—358Damian82
UY Uruguay#7328,40423K rec.—1Damian71
DE Germany#78315,23714K rec.—listedDamian176

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish2.3M60%
  • Polish892K23%
  • English381K10%
  • German26K1%
  • Portuguese24K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish2,296,16360%
Polish891,91323%
English380,93510%
German26,3001%
Portuguese23,7561%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Damian is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name930K records spelled Damian131 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Czechia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Демьян, Дем’ян, Damjan, Demian, Дамјан

  • French given name35K records spelled Damian92 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish, Catalan

    Also written Damien, Damia, Damián, Damianos, Damiën

  • a separate given name14K records spelled Damian6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Damián, Dámian, Damían, Dami︠a︡n, Damiàn

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name7.9K records spelled Damian14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Iceland

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Icelandic

    Also written Damián, Damiàn, Damianus

  • Romanian given name7.9K records spelled Damian4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Moldova, Spain

    Also written Dămian, Damián

  • Lao given name4.9K records spelled Damian19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Damien, Damián, เดเมียน, เดเมี่ยน, ดาเมียน

  • Finnish given name4.0K records spelled Damian4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Damián

77 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Damian is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Griego Damianos; 'el que doma', de damázō 'domar'. También se ha vinculado con Damia, sobrenombre de Cibeles.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Romanian, medic, gr. Anttavoc, cf. Acy..ice, zeita. 1. Damian (Bir I) ; Dtanienli, -esti ss.; -escu. 2. Demian, Joan, act. 3. Cu asim. regresiva : Dimian, A., act. ; -a t. ; Dimieni s. 4. Domian (Buc). 5. Cu schimbarea p. fin. : Damen, Berbea, mold. (Sd VII 329) ; Demenescu, I., act. ; Deminescu, act. (Jiul ard); Diminescu, D., act.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In Italian, forma reduzida setentrional de Damiano

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, Du grec Damianos, « dompteur, soumis »; fête de saint Damien le 26 septembre.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600800192019401960198020002020677 · 2013

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Damian in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1905–2024
Yearrecords
19052
19071
19094
19103
19121
19134
19142
19152
19164
19173
19181
19192
19203
19215
19222
19235
19241
19254
19263
19271
19285
19294
19305
19312
19325
19335
193410
19356
19365
19375
19387
19398
19406
19414
19423
19433
19444
19453
19466
19478
19483
19497
19509
19518
19528
195310
19542
19559
19567
195711
19588
19599
19608
19617
196211
196315
196414
196520
196625
19678
19689
196914
197025
197121
197214
197329
197424
197521
197627
197731
197831
197934
198048
198133
198230
198347
198447
198581
198659
198758
198866
198976
199071
199158
199283
199389
199475
1995225
1996141
1997109
1998116
1999112
2000145
2001145
2002150
2003150
2004164
2005183
2006210
2007218
2008268
2009365
2010338
2011352
2012545
2013677
2014541
2015481
2016521
2017557
2018518
2019446
2020359
2021430
2022389
2023334
2024264

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 117 years between 1905–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Agustín I of Mexico, b. 1783Damian Green, b. 1956Damian Harris, b. 1958Damian Young, b. 1961Damian Lewis, b. 1971Damian Marley, b. 1978Damian Warner, b. 1989Damian Lillard, b. 1990Damián Emiliano Martínez, b. 1992Damian Szymański, b. 1995

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 118 sources across 58 countries.

Official registers attesting Damian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—184K#36
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026184K#36
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202078K#672
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—12K#481
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—12K#222
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202411K#188
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—7.7K#130
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107K#4,980
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206.5K#5,161
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.6K#6,719
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20253.2K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.1K#835

Reference works 7

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,572 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Damian?
We estimate roughly 368 thousand people bear Damian (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Damian have the most bearers?
Damian is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled damian.
Where is Damian most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Damian is densest in Poland — about 1 in 208 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Damian compared with other names?
In Argentina, Damian is the 88th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Damian a male or female name?
Damian 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 Damian mean?
Recorded meaning: From Greek Damianos, the name of the brother of Cosmas (see Cosmo).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Damian” — the 88th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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