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Popularity of the baby name Damaris


Posts that mention the name Damaris

Popular baby names in New York City, 2015

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Flag of New York

Last year, New York City welcomed 121,673 babies — 59,218 girls and 62,455 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Ethan, according to data from New York City’s Department of Health.

Here are NYC’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2015:

Girl names

  1. Olivia, given to nearly 600 baby girls
  2. Sophia
  3. Emma (tie)
  4. Mia (tie)
  5. Isabella
  6. Leah
  7. Emily
  8. Ava
  9. Chloe
  10. Madison

Boy names

  1. Ethan, given to more than 700 baby boys
  2. Liam
  3. Noah
  4. Jacob
  5. Jayden
  6. Matthew
  7. David
  8. Daniel (tie)
  9. Dylan (tie)
  10. Aiden

The most popular baby names within specific ethnic/racial groups were…

Top girl namesTop boy names
Hispanic1. Isabella, 307
2. Sophia, 269
3. Mia, 257
4. Emma, 196
5. Camila, 180		1. Liam, 356
2. Dylan, 339
3. Ethan, 332
4. Matthew, 308
5. Noah, 297
Asian and Pacific Islander1. Olivia, 188
2. Chloe, 119
3. Sophia, 104
4. Emily, 99
5. Emma, 74		1. Jayden, 190
2. Ethan, 172
3. Ryan, 171
4. Muhammad, 154
5. Aiden, 133
White, non-Hispanic1. Emma, 225 (tie)
2. Olivia, 225 (tie)
3. Leah, 220
4. Sarah, 208
5. Esther, 206		1. David, 299
2. Joseph, 279
3. Moshe, 254
4. Jacob, 236
5. Benjamin, 234
Black, non-Hispanic1. Madison, 128
2. Skylar, 91
3. Ava, 87
4. Olivia, 82
5. Mia, 61		1. Noah, 163
2. Liam, 129
3. Aiden, 123
4. Jeremiah, 113
5. Ethan/Josiah, 111 each (tie)

Among the names given to just 10 babies each in NYC last year were the girl names Damaris, Eunice, and Shirin, and the boy names Dimitri, Immanuel, and Ousmane.

One year earlier, in 2014, NYC’s top names (overall) were Sophia and Ethan.

P.S. The news release also mentioned that NYC’s baby name data goes back as far back as 1898. That year, the top girl names were Mary, Catherine, and Margaret, and the top boy names were John, William, and Charles.

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of New York (public domain)

[Latest update: Feb. 2026]

Uncommon baby names in Oregon, 2012

Oregon’s Open Data website includes several tables of baby name data from 2012.

The most interesting thing about this data? It goes all the way down to names given to just three babies per year. (All the SSA baby name lists, on the other hand, have a five-baby cut-off.)

So here are some of the baby names that were bestowed in Oregon just three or four times in 2012:

Girl NamesBoy Names
Amberly
Andromeda
Arianny
Damaris
Diem
Ellingon
Fern
Gaia
Io
Isela
Jubilee
Kahlan
Linnea
Lois
Lumen
Magali
Rue
Sahasra
Sanvi
Sayuri
Seven
Sinai
Siri
Sonora
Sparrow
Timber
Twyla
Van
Yara		Achilles
Alvin
Atlas
Atreyu
Bear
Briar
Calder
Carver
Clive
Dutch
Forest
Huck
Hyrum
Isley
Kainoa
Kincaid
Koa
Larry
Loki
Montgomery
Riot
Rogue
Summit
Tavish
Tiberius
Tor
Trapper
Van
Zephyr

The name Diem caught my eye. Diem has been in the SSA data since the ’80s, but a lot of the recent usage was probably inspired by Danielle Michelle “Diem” Brown, who appeared on various MTV reality TV shows from 2006 to 2015. (She passed away in 2014 from ovarian cancer.) In her case, “Diem” was a nickname based on the initials “D.M.,” making this yet another name that can be spelled with the names of letters.

Update, 8/2023: Unfortunately, the state’s Open Data site no longer includes information on baby names, and I couldn’t find copies of the state’s 2012 baby name data anywhere else online (like at the Internet Archive).

While I was searching, though, I did find a couple of baby name-related quiz questions in a mid-2008 issue of CD Summary [pdf], which is a newsletter put out by Oregon Health Authority.

Which was the most frequently used baby name for boys in 2007?
(a) Anthony; (b) Pirate; (c) Jacob; (d) Elvis

The answer: (c) Jacob. “In 2007, 257 babies were named Jacob. Anthony was the tenth most frequently used boy’s name (184 babies). Four babies were named Elvis and only one, Pirate.”

The following were all baby names for girls in 2007 except?
(a) Chevy; (b) ESPN; (c) Logger; (d) God

The answer: (c) Logger. “No baby in Oregon has ever been named Logger. The name Chevy has been chosen for females seven times during the past 46 years, ESPN and God only once.”

Popular baby names in Moldova, 2014

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Flag of Moldova

According to data from Moldova’s Civil Status Service, the most popular baby names in the country in 2014 were Sofia and Maxim.

Here are Moldova’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2014:

Girl Names

  1. Sofia, 846 baby girls
  2. Anastasia, 787
  3. Daria, 700
  4. Maria, 676
  5. Victoria, 656
  6. Alexandra, 617
  7. Valeria, 501
  8. Evelina, 461
  9. Andreea, 438
  10. Nicoleta, 415

Boy Names

  1. Maxim, 904 baby boys
  2. David, 884
  3. Alexandru, 731
  4. Artiom, 700
  5. Ion, 683
  6. Bogdan, 579
  7. Daniel, 563
  8. Nichita, 523
  9. Damian, 463
  10. Cristian, 439

In 2013, the top two names in Moldova were Maxim and Anastasia.

My source article also listed some examples of uncommon names bestowed in 2014:

Unusual Girl NamesUnusual Boy Names
Alesta
Elisa-Medeca
Hadasa
Jestina
Nica-Maline
Petronela
Rut
Teya-Sofia		Damaris
Ertas
Jimmi Singh
Kirika
Ramazan
Ratmir
Timur Han
Yagmur

These rankings are a bit out of date, but I’ve never posted rankings for Moldova before, so I figure something is better than nothing.

Source: Nonii, Victoria. “Cele mai neobisnuite prenume în Moldova, pentru 2014.” Diez.md 4 Feb. 2015.

Image: Adapted from Flag of Moldova (public domain)

Oddball English names, 17th and 18th centuries

One of the sources I used for yesterday’s post on Ono Titchiner was a book full of 17th and 18th century marriage records from Surrey.

In the introduction, the author listed some of the more notable names to be found in the book:

There are some curious and uncommon Christian names from Biblical and Classical sources; amongst those of females, Achsa, Adeliza, Aphara, Anastasia, Aquila, Avarillar, Bathana, Bedia, Bethia, Cassandra, Caroline-Shepherdess, Celeste, Clementia, Damaris, Dionisia, Dufiner, Dulcibella, Eleanor, Emmaritta, Emlin, Euphemia, Grachauna, Gratitude, Hephzibah, Israel, Jacobinea, Jaminia, Juliana, Kimbra, Melior, Milbrough, Pamelia, Parthenia, Paterniller, Pleasant-Furs, Protesia, Silvestria, Sina, Statira, Tamar, Tempearance, Theodosia, Tryphena, “Virgin” [Price]; and amongst males those of Ananias, Bivel, Calverley, Chrusophilus, Demetrius, Deodatus, Derik, Emmet, Eusebius, Ezekiel, Fretwill, Gershom, Haman, Haseldine [Crab-tree], Jonah, Lazarus, Nazareth, “Offspring” [Brown], Ono, Prew, Purchas, Redhead [Eagle], Rulove, Sills [Gibbons], Theophilus, Truth, Uphill, Ward, Wintz, Zacheus, Zenas, Zeuler.

It’s interesting to note that a few of the above (like Juliana and Jonah) are now commonplace.

And I could imagine a few others (Tamar? Lazarus?) becoming trendy in the near future.

Which of these names do you like best?

Source: Bax, Alfred Ridley. Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Commissary Court of Surrey Between 1673-1770. Norwich: Goose & Son, 1907.