Damir
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: a male given name "to give peace"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪a˨˦miːr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Damir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 11th most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 160(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 374
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Damir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 160 (inferred from the name graph)
≈70,000 named Дамир, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Дамир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
a male given name "to give peace"
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Damir is read(measured from records)
Damir is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian58%
a male given name "to give peace"
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Russian12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Damir in Russian.
- English9.7%
A male given name from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Damir in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Damir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #132 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | #72 | Дамир | 178 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #126 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 668 | 34K | Дамир | 58 |
| HR Croatia | #29 | 26,372 | 1 in 160 | 26K | Damir | 163 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #426 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Дамир | 30 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #11 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 374 | — | Damir | 59 |
| RS Serbia | #149 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Damir | 60 |
| SI Slovenia | #362 | 1,909 | 1 in 1.1K | 1.9K | Damir | 61 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Damir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Damir är ett sydslaviskt namn, bildat av de två orden dat som betyder ’att ge’ och mir ’fred’. Det kan också ha turkiskt ursprung.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Damir Šolmanb. 1948HROlympic medalist in basketball
- Damir Burićb. 1964HRCroatian football player and manager
- Damir Urbanb. 1968HRCroatian rock musician
- Damir Canadib. 1970ATAustrian association football manager
- Damir Skominab. 1976SISlovenian football referee
- Damir Mikecb. 1984RSSerbian sport shooter
- Damir Kahrimanb. 1984RSSerbian footballer
- Damir Markotab. 1985HRCroatian-Swedish basketball player
- Damir Kedžob. 1987HRCroatian pop singer
- Damir Martinb. 1988HRCroatian rower
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)
Attested in 79 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 26K | #19 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 23K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 1.9K | #122 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.9K | #259 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2012 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Damir mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name "to give peace" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Damir a male or female name?
- Damir 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.
- How common is the name Damir?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 26,372 people named Damir in 2021, about 1 in 160 residents.
- How common is Damir compared with other names?
- In Russia, Damir is the 132nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Damir?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪a˨˦miːr/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Damir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 70 thousand people named Дамир in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Damir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Damir is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 160 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Damir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/damirThe 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, “Damir” — the 132nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.