Damari
Masculine
Damari is given to both — 5,547 boys and 811 girls since 1880. See Damari as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Damari sits in a family of American names built on the same warm ending — Amari, Jamari, Kamari — three even syllables that land softly on the final -i. It is a recent arrival in American naming rather than an old import, which means most of its story is still being written by the people who carry it.
How old is the name Damari?
Damari first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Damari is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 5,500 people named Damari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Damari most popular?
Damari peaked in 2016, reaching #782 nationally. Today it ranks #958, 176 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Damari
Damari belongs to a group of names that took shape in the United States rather than traveling here: the -ari names, which spread through American birth records in the late twentieth century and reinforced one another as they went. The pieces are familiar — the Da- opening of Damon, Damarion and Darius, the ending shared with Amari and Jamari — but the combination is a modern one, and no older source has been traced for it. The spelling Damari also turns up independently as a Yemenite Jewish surname, connected to the city of Dhamar, a separate line with no documented bridge to the American given name. Its use is strongest in Florida, Texas and Illinois.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No established meaning. What is documented is the company it keeps: Damari shares its shape with Amari, Jamari and Kamari, a cluster of names that rose together in the United States, and with Damarion and Damarius. Separately, Damari exists as a Yemenite Jewish surname tied to the city of Dhamar, and Damaris is a Greek name from the New Testament — neither line has been shown to produce the American boy's name, and neither should be read into it.
Pronouncing Damari
duh-MAR-ee
Stress usually falls on the middle syllable, rhyming the ending with 'starry'. Some families say dah-MAH-ree with a fuller first vowel. Both are in use, so it is worth deciding early which one you will correct people toward.
Nicknames for Damari
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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
- 1988
- Most boys named
- 2016304 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #782reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- −1.2%243 in 2025, from 246
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
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Texas, Illinois.
Damaris among us
people named Damari are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 7,029 born in 2025 was named Damari
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 Kennth 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: Kennth climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kennth's path sketches the road Damari is walking now.
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
Where Damari is headed
Damari should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Damari beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Damari in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds — most English speakers get it right on the first read without being told.
- Two ready-made short forms, Ari and Mari, that both work as standalone names.
- Sits inside a recognized American name family — Amari, Jamari, Kamari — so it reads as familiar rather than invented.
- Three balanced syllables, which pairs easily with both short and long surnames.
- It lives one letter away from Amari and Damarion, and close to Damarie and Damari's other spellings. Expect a lifetime of gentle corrections, mostly the added J or the dropped D.
- The stress isn't fixed — duh-MAR-ee and dah-MAH-ree both circulate — so your child will end up choosing which version to defend.
- There is no settled meaning to offer when someone asks. Some parents find that freeing; others want an answer ready, and here the honest one is that the name is too new for scholarship to have caught up.
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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 5,500 people named Damari are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Damari in 2025?
- Damari ranks #958 among US boy names in 2025, with 243 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Damari?
- About 1 in every 7,029 US boys born in 2025 was named Damari — 243 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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