Damia
Feminine
Damia was a goddess, and two statues of her started a war. Herodotus tells the story: Epidaurus made images of Damia and Auxesia from Athenian olive wood, Aegina stole them, Athens sent men to take them back, the statues fell to their knees, and every Athenian but one was killed. The survivor was murdered at home by widows with their brooch pins.
How old is the name Damia?
Damia first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Damia alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,100 people named Damia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Damia most popular?
Damia peaked in 2005, reaching #2482 nationally. Today it ranks #8362, 5,880 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Damia
The story is in the fifth book of Herodotus and it is one of his stranger passages. Epidaurus, suffering crop failure, was told by an oracle to make statues of Damia and Auxesia from cultivated olive wood; only Athens had such trees, and Athens granted the wood on condition of annual offerings. Aegina, breaking away from Epidaurus, carried the statues off and set up their own cult. The Athenians came for them, and Herodotus gives two versions of what happened: the Athenians say an earthquake and madness destroyed their force, the Aeginetans say they were defeated in battle. In both, one man returns to Athens, and the widows of the dead surround him and stab him with the pins of their cloaks, asking each in turn where her husband is. Athens, according to Herodotus, then changed the women's dress to a style with no pins.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Damia is the name of a goddess worshipped at Epidaurus, Aegina and Troezen alongside Auxesia, associated with fertility and growth; the derivation of the name is not established and may relate to a root about the earth or about subduing. In American records Damia is far more likely an American formation joining the Da- prefix to Mia. It peaks in 2005.
Pronouncing Damia
DAH-mee-ah
Three syllables, stress on the first. duh-MEE-ah with the stress on the second is also common and is the reading of the American coinage. Both circulate.
Nicknames for Damia
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 girls named
- 200570 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2482reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −14.3%12 in 2025, from 14
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.
Damia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Damia in Greek — transliteration
Damias among us
people named Damia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was named Damia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Damia
- #8362
- Damia on the 2025 chart
- #883
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Damia went to 12 girls in 2025, but Damiyah, Damya and Damiya and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 77, which makes it the 883rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 7,479 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 20,874 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 133,939 for Damia 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 Dinorah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Damia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dinorah climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dinorah's path sketches the road Damia is walking now.
Damia 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
Damia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Damia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Mia is a complete and very common short form.
- It is short and easy to say.
- The Greek cult behind the name is genuinely documented.
- Two stress patterns circulate.
- The Greek goddess is almost certainly not the source of the American name.
- Damia, Damiah and Dameah all appear.
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Frequently asked
- How many Damias 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 Damia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Damia?
- Damia is one of 5 recorded spellings. Damiyah is the more common one — 27 births in 2025 against 12 for Damia.
- How popular is the name Damia in 2025?
- Damia ranks #8362 among US girl names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Damia?
- About 1 in every 133,939 US girls born in 2025 was named Damia — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Damia with classmates?
- Damia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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