Damarcus
Masculine · “The Marcus element is contested”
Damarcus is Da- joined to Marcus, and Marcus is one of the oldest Roman first names still in use — a member of the small set of praenomina that Rome reused for a thousand years. The joining is American and belongs to the 1990s.
How old is the name Damarcus?
Damarcus first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Damarcus alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 3,200 people named Damarcus are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Damarcus most popular?
Damarcus peaked in 1995, reaching #994 nationally. Today it ranks #5608, 4,614 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Marcus to Damarcus
Our story of Damarcus
The prefix system chose its second elements carefully, and Marcus is a good illustration of what it wanted. It has two syllables with the stress at the front, which lets an unstressed prefix sit before it without a fight. It ends in a full consonant, which gives the name a firm close. And it was in the American top two hundred through the 1980s and 1990s, so it was familiar. Damarcus, Demarcus, Jamarcus and Lamarcus all appear in those years, and Demarcus in particular reached the top five hundred. Damarcus's peak in 1995 sits at the height of the whole set, and the Roman name underneath is two thousand years older than the prefix in front of it.
Meaningscholars disagree
The Marcus element is contested
Marcus is one of the handful of Roman praenomina and its etymology is not settled: derivations from Mars, the war god, and from marcus, a hammer, have both been proposed and neither is proved. The Da- prefix is a productive American naming element with no documented meaning. The compound has no translatable sense.
How the name formed
- Marcus
- Damarcus
Related forms: Marcus
Pronouncing Damarcus
duh-MAR-kus
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Some families say DAY-mar-kus with a full first vowel, and both are in use.
Nicknames for Damarcus
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
- 1971
- Most boys named
- 2006131 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #994reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- −38.5%16 in 2025, from 26
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.
Damarcus in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marcus in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, North Carolina.
Damarcuss among us
people named Damarcus are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 106,755 born in 2025 was named Damarcus
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 Cheryl test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Damarcus's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cheryl climbed just as high around 1958, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cheryl's path sketches the road Damarcus is walking now.
Damarcus 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
Damarcus beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Damarcus in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Marcus is a complete and ancient name available as a short form.
- Everyone can say it after one hearing.
- It reads immediately as a name of its family.
- Demarcus is the commoner spelling and will be written for it.
- The Roman name's own meaning is genuinely unsettled.
- The Da- prefix dates it closely to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Masculine · #5608 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Damarcuss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,200 people named Damarcus are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Damarcus in 2025?
- Damarcus ranks #5608 among US boy names in 2025, with 16 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Damarcus?
- About 1 in every 106,755 US boys born in 2025 was named Damarcus — 16 in all.
- Will my child share the name Damarcus with classmates?
- Damarcus will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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