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Damari

Feminine · “possibly 'heifer' or 'gentle”

Damari is given to both — 811 girls and 5,547 boys since 1880. See Damari as a boy nameSee other names given to both

1968high 2006
#6116 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare19 girls in 2025

Damari has a genuine New Testament candidate behind it. Damaris is named in Acts as one of the few people in Athens who believed Paul, and her name is Greek; Damari is a clipping of it. It is also readable as a Da- prefix name of the modern American kind, and both routes were live when this record peaked in 2006.

How old is the name Damari?

Damari first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Damari alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 800 people named Damari are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Damari most popular?

Damari peaked in 2006, reaching #3316 nationally. Today it ranks #6116, 2,800 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Damari

Acts 17 describes Paul preaching at the Areopagus in Athens to an audience that mostly mocked him; two named converts are Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman called Damaris. She appears nowhere else and nothing more is known about her, but the naming of a woman in that context is itself notable. English-speaking Protestants took Damaris up after the Reformation and it was in genuine use in seventeenth-century England and colonial New England. The modern American Damari is a separate arrival, belonging to the Da- and -ari families that produced Amari, Jamari and Damarion in the same years.

Meaningscholars disagree

possibly 'heifer' or 'gentle', in the Damaris reading

Greek Damaris appears once in the New Testament and its derivation is argued. The most cited proposal connects it to damalis, 'heifer, young cow', which was an ordinary Greek women's name; another reads it from damar, 'wife', and a third from a root meaning to tame or to be gentle. None is decisive. If Damari is instead a modern Da- prefix formation, it has no meaning at all — and the record cannot tell the two apart.

How the name formed

  1. Damaris
  2. Damari

Related forms: Damaris · Damaris · Damarie

Pronouncing Damari

duh-MAR-ee

Three syllables, stress in the middle. A front-stressed DAM-uh-ree is also heard. Both circulate in American use, and the middle-stress version is the more common.

Nicknames for Damari

High

DamA single-syllable clip, though it collides with the ordinary word
MariTakes the back of the name, and is a name in its own right
DeeThe initial as a nickname, available to every Da- name
AriBuilt from the ending
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1968–202549250491919682025

US babies named Damari per year from 1968 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#33161960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1968
Most girls named
200649 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#3316reached in 2006
Change vs 2024
+11.8%19 in 2025, from 17
Damari sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2006, with 49 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Damari in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Damaris in Greek — related form
  • Damaris in Spanish — related form
  • Damarie in English — spelling variant

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas.

Damaris among us

800

people named Damari are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 84,593 born in 2025 was named Damari

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

The Karman test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Damari's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karman climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karman's path sketches the road Damari is walking now.

40%chance Damari will feel “very 2000s” by 2040
Damari, aligned on its peakKarman· peak 1968not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-40 yrs+60 yrsKarman · #12681Damari today
Damari today is about where Karman stood in 1987 — 19 years past a #3315-sized peak. By 2002, Karman had settled around #10296.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Damari 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

Damari beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Damari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Damarithis name19#6116Alvina19#6116Mena19#6116Harvey19#6116Kellie19#6116

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • Mari and Ari are both usable short forms already in independent use.
  • It has a possible New Testament ancestry with a genuine, if minor, bearer.
  • It works on either sex, with real American use on both.
What to consider
  • Two stress patterns circulate and the spelling does not settle which.
  • The Greek name's own etymology is genuinely contested.
  • Damari, Damarie and Amari all exist and are easily confused.

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Frequently asked

How many Damaris 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 Damari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Damari in 2025?
Damari ranks #6116 among US girl names in 2025, with 19 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Damari?
About 1 in every 84,593 US girls born in 2025 was named Damari — 19 in all.
Will my child share the name Damari with classmates?
Damari will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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