Daimon
Masculine · “To tame”
Daimon is Damon respelled, and the respelling lands on a real Greek word by accident: daimōn is the spirit or lesser divinity that Socrates said advised him. Damon is a different word entirely — but the eye cannot tell, and that coincidence is most of what the spelling does.
How old is the name Daimon?
Daimon first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Daimon alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 800 people named Daimon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daimon most popular?
Daimon peaked in 1976, reaching #2245 nationally. Today it ranks #5208, 2,963 places below that high. See the whole 1976 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Damōn to Daimon
The story of Daimon
Damon and Pythias are the classical friendship story: Damon stood surety with his own life for a condemned friend and the tyrant, moved, released them both. That is the whole of the name's ancient reputation, and it is a good one. The name entered English use through the pastoral poetry of the Renaissance, where Damon is a stock shepherd, and became an ordinary American name in the twentieth century. Daimon appears as a spelling only in the twentieth century, with its small peak in the mid-1970s, and it belongs to the same period as Daymon and Damion. The Greek daimōn, meanwhile, has an entirely separate literary life through Socrates and through Jung.
Meaningscholars disagree
To tame, to subdue
The classical name Damon, Δάμων, is generally derived from damaō, to tame or subdue. The spelling Daimon coincides with the separate Greek word daimōn, a guiding spirit or lesser divinity, which passed into Latin as daemon and into English as demon with its sense reversed by Christian usage. Sources disagree about whether the modern respelling is a deliberate borrowing of that second word or simply an American variant of Damon.
How the name formed
- Damōn
- Damon
- Daimon
Related forms: Δάμων · Damon · Damien
Pronouncing Daimon
DAY-mun
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical to Damon. The Greek daimōn would be DYE-mone, which almost no American bearer uses.
Nicknames for Daimon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1968
- Most boys named
- 200333 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2245reached in 1976
- Change vs 2024
- +125.0%18 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Daimon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Δάμων in Greek — transliteration
- Damon in English — spelling variant
- Damien in French — related form
Daimons among us
people named Daimon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 94,893 born in 2025 was named Daimon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Daimon
- #5208
- Daimon on the 2025 chart
- #891
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Daimon went to 18 boys in 2025, but Daymon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 37, which makes it the 891st most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,317 places above the chart.
- Daymon19
- Daimon18
About 1 boy in 46,164 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,893 for Daimon itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Levan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daimon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Levan climbed just as high around 1951, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Levan's path sketches the road Daimon is walking now.
Daimon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Daimon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daimon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The classical Damon is a byword for loyalty, which is a rare thing for a name to carry.
- It is easy to say and needs no introduction.
- The spelling looks distinct without changing the sound.
- The letters daimon are one step from demon, and a schoolyard will make that step.
- Damon is the standard spelling and will be written instead.
- The two Greek words behind the two spellings are unrelated, which invites a claim about meaning that is not supportable.
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Frequently asked
- How many Daimons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Daimon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Daimon?
- Daimon is one of 2 recorded spellings. Daymon is the more common one — 19 births in 2025 against 18 for Daimon.
- How popular is the name Daimon in 2025?
- Daimon ranks #5208 among US boy names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daimon?
- About 1 in every 94,893 US boys born in 2025 was named Daimon — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daimon with classmates?
- Daimon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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