Dámaso
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/ˈdamaso/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Dámaso is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Δάμασος (Dámasos).
- NINicaragua≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela1 in 6.2K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 8.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Damaso in PE Peru, MX Mexico, VE Venezuela and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Ancient Greek Δάμασος (Dámasos).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dámaso counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 58 | Damaso | 90 |
| VE Venezuela | #857 | 4,590 | 1 in 6.2K | 4.6K | Damaso | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Damaso | 52 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Damaso | 34 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,815 | 1 in 28K | 2K | Damaso | 85 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #568 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Damaso | 20 |
| NI Nicaragua | #383 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Damaso | 9 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #432 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Damaso | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dámaso Antonio Larrañagab. 1771UYCatholic priest and scholar (1771-1848)
- Dámaso Zabalzab. 1835ESSpanish composer and pianist (1830-1894)
- Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauenb. 1873ESSpanish general and politician (1873-1953)
- Dámaso Alonsob. 1899ESSpanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
- Perez Pradob. 1916CUnot in their usual nameCuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger (1917–1989)
- Dámaso Blancob. 1941VEbaseball player
- Dámaso Rodríguez Martínb. 1945ESSpanish serial killer (1945–1991)
- Dámaso Garcíab. 1955DODominican Republic baseball player
- Dámaso Marteb. 1975DObaseball player
- Damaso Espinob. 1983PAPanamanian baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
| ES Spain | 25,000 Nombres de Bebé (Vázquez de Haro, 2005) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dámaso mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Δάμασος (Dámasos). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Dámaso?
- In Spanish /ˈdamaso/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Dámaso?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 4,590 people named Dámaso, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Dámaso compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Dámaso is the 383rd most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
- Is Dámaso a male or female name?
- Dámaso is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dámaso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Dámaso in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled damaso.
What do you want to know about Dámaso?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A1masoThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dámaso” — the 383rd most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.