Damani is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Damani is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 boys have been named Damani. In the SmartGenius ranking, Damani is #1,630 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Damani.
Damani is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Damani cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #940 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2012. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Damani, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Damani seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Damani was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
89 babies were named Damani in 2022 - that's 1 in 2,483,477 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Damani ranked 1,636 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds that a man or boy named Damani lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Damani in 20 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Damani live in New York – here, one in 35,461 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 151,887 will turn around if you call his first name Damani.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 8.5% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J and A are more common for boys' names.
With six letters, the name Damani is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all boys' names start with a D, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the boys’ names starting with D is David.
If your name is Damani and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Damani, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Damani sounds like this:
