Damone
Masculine · “To tame”
Damone belongs to a set of American men's names built to sound French by putting an e on the end: Tyrone, Jerome, Antoine, Damone. None of them is French, and the device works anyway, because the e moves the weight of the name onto its last syllable, which is what French names do and English ones do not.
How old is the name Damone?
Damone first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Damone alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 1,200 people named Damone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Damone most popular?
Damone peaked in 1974, reaching #1311 nationally. See the whole 1974 chart.
Where it comes from
From Damon to Damone
The story of Damone
The Greek daimon that gives English demon meant something closer to a guiding spirit or an allotted fate, and Socrates famously claimed to have one that warned him off actions but never told him what to do. Christian writers narrowed it to something wicked, and by the time English borrowed it there was nothing left of the older sense. Damon is from a separate verb about taming animals and by extension about mastering anything difficult; it was an ordinary Greek man's name, carried in a well-known story about two friends and a death sentence, and it reached English through the classical revival. Adding a final e to it is a twentieth-century American move and changes only where the voice lands.
Meaningscholars disagree
To tame, to subdue
If the name is Damon, the Greek verb behind it means to tame or to overcome, and it is the root of the word indomitable. It has nothing to do with the word demon, which comes from a different Greek word entirely and originally meant a spirit of no particular character. The two look alike in English and are unrelated, which is worth saying because the assumption comes up.
How the name formed
- Damon
- Damone
Related forms: Damon · Damone
Pronouncing Damone
duh-MOHN
Two syllables with the stress at the back, which is what the final e is there to signal. Read as Italian it would be three syllables, dah-MOH-neh, and that is the one language where the spelling is native.
Nicknames for Damone
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
- 1959
- Most boys named
- 197442 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1311reached in 1974
- Change vs 2023
- +28.6%9 in 2024, from 7
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.
Damone in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Damon in Greek — transliteration
- Damone in Italian — spelling variant
Damones among us
people named Damone are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Damone sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Final stress gives the name a clean, definite finish and makes it carry across a room.
- The name behind it is genuinely ancient and attached to a well-known story about friendship.
- It is unusual without being difficult; nobody has to be told twice how to say it.
- The similarity to an English word for an evil spirit is superficial but will be noticed.
- Damon is far commoner and will be written by anyone taking dictation.
- The final e is silent in English, which makes the spelling hard to justify in speech.
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Frequently asked
- How many Damones are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Damone are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Damone in 2025?
- Damone is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Damone with classmates?
- Damone will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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