Damar
Masculine
Damar is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,140 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Damar belongs to the American Da- generation on boys, which ran roughly from 1970 to 1995 and produced Damarcus, Damari, Damarion, Damond and Damar. The prefix is the same one that gave the girls' list Danisha and Damani, and the endings changed while the front stayed. Its American peak is 1985.
How old is the name Damar?
Damar first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Damar alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 1,100 people named Damar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Damar most popular?
Damar peaked in 1985, reaching #1794 nationally. Today it ranks #5861, 4,067 places below that high. See the whole 1985 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lamar to Damar
Our story of Damar
The -mar ending had a very good twenty years. Lamar came first and had a genuine ancestry — a French surname, de la Mare, 'of the pool', carried into the American South by Huguenot families and made visible by Mirabeau Lamar, an early president of Texas. Once that sound was in circulation it detached from its history and became available: Jamar, Demar, Damar, Kamar and Lemar all appear in American records in the decades after 1970, built by fitting a fashionable prefix to a fashionable ending. Damar is one of those. What makes the group interesting is how tightly they cluster in time — none of them was in use before about 1968, all of them peaked before about 1995, and their rise and fall is almost identical. A naming element can be productive and short-lived at once, and this one was both.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No documented source for the American name. Damar is a real word in Malay and Indonesian, where it names a tree resin used for varnish, and it is a place name in Indonesia and Yemen — but neither has any traceable connection to American usage. The likelier account is structural: Da- is a productive American first element and -mar is a fashionable ending, found also in Lamar, Jamar and Demar. All four of those appear in the American record in the same two decades, which is the strongest evidence available.
How the name formed
- Lamar
- Damar
Pronouncing Damar
duh-MAR
Two syllables, stress at the end, rhyming with car. A front-stressed DAY-mar is also heard, which changes the character of the name noticeably; the end-stressed version is much the more common.
Nicknames for Damar
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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
- 1972
- Most boys named
- 199037 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1794reached in 1985
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%15 in 2025, from 15
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.
Damars among us
people named Damar are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 113,872 born in 2025 was named Damar
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Levert test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Damar's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Levert climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Levert's path sketches the road Damar is walking now.
Damar 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
Damar beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Damar in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, phonetic and unambiguous to any English reader.
- The Da- front makes it immediately placeable within a recognizable family of names.
- It has no close competitor in spelling, unlike most names of its generation.
- There is no documented meaning to give when asked.
- Two stress patterns circulate and the spelling does not settle which.
- Its curve is tightly 1975-1995, which places a bearer's generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Damars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Damar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Damar in 2025?
- Damar ranks #5861 among US boy names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Damar?
- About 1 in every 113,872 US boys born in 2025 was named Damar — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Damar with classmates?
- Damar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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