Damir
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Damir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Russian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name "to give peace".
- HRCroatia1 in 160◐
- BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 240
- KZKazakhstan1 in 556
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈72K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 201 ●
- 1 in 160 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
327K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Дамир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 7 more, Дамір in UA Ukraine and Დამირ in GE Georgia.
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●
a male given name "to give peace"
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #129 | 450,882 | 177K rec. | — | #72 | Дамир | 163 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #108 | 34,327 | 50K rec. | 1 in 556 | 34K | Дамир | 55 |
| HR Croatia | #26 | 26,372 | 58K rec. | 1 in 160 | 26K | Damir | 157 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #274 | 12,697 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Дамир | 20 |
| UA Ukraine | #374 | 12,669 | 12K rec. | — | listed | Дамір | 25 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 10,902 | 361 rec. | — | — | Дамир | 18 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #426 | 5,486 | 679 rec. | — | listed | Дамир | 30 |
| DE Germany | — | 5,309 | 4.6K rec. | — | — | Damir | 144 |
| RS Serbia | #148 | 2,969 | 1.6K rec. | — | listed | Damir | 59 |
| MD Moldova | — | 2,855△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 1.2K | 2.9K | — | 8 |
| US United States | — | 2,647 | 13K rec. | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Damir | 201 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,121△ | 99 rec. | 1 in 18K | 2.1K | Damir | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Croatian178K71%
- Russian14K6%
- English9.6K4%
- Polish8.2K3%
- German7.5K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 178,417 | 71% |
| Russian | 13,999 | 6% |
| English | 9,620 | 4% |
| Polish | 8,246 | 3% |
| German | 7,463 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Damir is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Damir är ett sydslaviskt namn, bildat av de två orden dat som betyder ’att ge’ och mir ’fred’. Det kan också ha turkiskt ursprung.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 26 |
| 1997 | 23 |
| 1998 | 36 |
| 1999 | 42 |
| 2000 | 43 |
| 2001 | 48 |
| 2002 | 46 |
| 2003 | 47 |
| 2004 | 48 |
| 2005 | 40 |
| 2006 | 67 |
| 2007 | 60 |
| 2008 | 67 |
| 2009 | 78 |
| 2010 | 62 |
| 2011 | 81 |
| 2012 | 71 |
| 2013 | 82 |
| 2014 | 110 |
| 2015 | 103 |
| 2016 | 117 |
| 2017 | 115 |
| 2018 | 121 |
| 2019 | 207 |
| 2020 | 231 |
| 2021 | 263 |
| 2022 | 266 |
| 2023 | 301 |
| 2024 | 316 |
| 2025 | 233 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Damir Šolmanb. 1948HROlympic medalist in basketball
- Damir Burićb. 1964HRCroatian football player and manager
- Damir Urbanb. 1968HRCroatian rock musician
- Damir Canadib. 1970ATAustrian association football manager
- Damir Skominab. 1976SISlovenian football referee
- Damir Mikecb. 1984RSSerbian sport shooter
- Damir Kahrimanb. 1984RSSerbian footballer
- Damir Markotab. 1985HRCroatian-Swedish basketball player
- Damir Kedžob. 1987HRCroatian pop singer
- Damir Martinb. 1988HRCroatian rower
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 77 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 26K | #19 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 23K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2.9K | #226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.6K | #6,092 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2.1K | #339 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.9K | #122 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.9K | #259 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.9K | #347 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1K | #1,646 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 779 | #2,028 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 684 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 520 | #279 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 572 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Damir?
- We estimate roughly 72 thousand people bear Damir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Damir have the most bearers?
- Damir is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled дамир.
- Where is Damir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Damir is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 160 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Damir compared with other names?
- In Russia, Damir is the 129th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
- Is Damir a male or female name?
- Damir 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 Damir mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name "to give peace"
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About this data
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, “Damir” — the 129th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.