Damaso

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Damaso is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Greek daman ‘tame’, ‘subdue’; borne in honour of a 4th-century pope.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela1 in 6.2K
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 9.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Venezuela (measured from records)

4,590 people

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Greek daman ‘tame’, ‘subdue’; borne in honour of a 4th-century pope.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Damaso 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.

Where Damaso is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#8574,5901 in 6.2K4.6KDamaso24
PH Philippines—≈4,600 est.≈1 in 24KlistedDamaso52
PE Peru—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 12K—Damaso34
ES Spain—1,8151 in 28K2KDamaso85
DO Dominican Republic#568≈1,100 est.≈1 in 9.5K—Damaso20
NI Nicaragua#383≈1,000 est.≈1 in 6K—Damaso9
PR Puerto Rico#432≈270 est.≈1 in 12K—Damaso6

4,590 people counted by asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996). 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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Damaso is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Dâmaso, Dámaso, Dâmasò

  • Italian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Italy, United States, Spain

    Also written Dâmaso, Dámaso, Dàmaso, D'Amaso

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Dàmaso, Dámaso, Damas-O, Dâmaso

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Dámaso, Dâmaso

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Maltese

    Also written Dámaso, Dãmâsô, Dâmaso

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Dámaso, Dâmaso

  • Lao given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Philippines, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written ดำโส, Dámaso, Dâmaso

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Damaso is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Griego Damasos; 'domador', de damázō 'domar'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Spanish: name borne in honour of a 4th-century pope, St Damasus , who was a close friend of St Jerome. He was apparently of Spanish descent. The name is of Greek origin and is derived from the element dam n to tame, subdue, kill (cf. DAMON and DAMIAN ).

    as a word

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)

16001700180019002000Damaso Testa, b. 1692Damaso Legaz, b. 1838Vilfredo Pareto, b. 1848Damaso Pio De Bono, b. 1850Damaso Bianchi, b. 1861Damasus Zähringer, b. 1899Damaso Munoz, b. 1986

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Damaso
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—708#6,017
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—708#6,017

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Damaso mean, and where does it come from?
From Greek daman ‘tame’, ‘subdue’; borne in honour of a 4th-century pope. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Damaso a male or female name?
Damaso 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 Damaso have the most bearers?
In Venezuela, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Damaso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled damaso.
How common is the name Damaso?
In Venezuela, the national register counted 4,590 people named Damaso, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
How common is Damaso compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Damaso is the 857th most common given name of 218,181 given names recorded there.

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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, “Damaso” — the 857th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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