Damon is an old Greek name, that originated from the word ‘damazo’ meaning ‘to tame, to conquer, to overpower’. As an English given name, it has only been regularly used since the 20th century. In the USA, the name had its peak phase in the 1970s.
Damon is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Damon isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Damon ranks 400. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Damon. In the entire USA, approximately 62,311 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Damon. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Damon is an old Greek name, that originated from the word ‘damazo’ meaning ‘to tame, to conquer, to overpower’. As an English given name, it has only been regularly used since the 20th century. In the USA, the name had its peak phase in the 1970s.
According to Greek legend, ... Damon and Pythias lived in the 4th century BC. When Pythias was sentenced to death, he was allowed to temporarily go free on the condition that his friend Damon takes his place in prison. Pythias returned just before Damon was to be executed in his place, and the king was so impressed with their loyalty to one another that he pardoned Pythias.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Damon occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Damon is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Damon is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 62,304 men and boys of all generations bear the name Damon – that is one in 2,679. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Indiana, where one in 400 men and boys is called Damon, while it is particularly rare in Vermont, where you have to ask an average of 49,431 men for their name to get Damon as an answer once.
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 five letters, the name Damon is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Damon 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 Damon, 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.
Damon
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Damon sounds like this: