Damaso
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Greek daman ‘tame’, ‘subdue’; borne in honour of a 4th-century pope
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries
/damaso/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Damaso is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- 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
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Greek daman ‘tame’, ‘subdue’; borne in honour of a 4th-century pope.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| 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); 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 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)- Damaso Testab. 1692ITItalian organ builder (1692-1728)
- Damaso Legazb. 1838ESBasque writer
- Vilfredo Paretob. 1848FRnot in their usual nameItalian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
- Damaso Pio De Bonob. 1850ITItalian bishop (1850–1927)
- Damaso Bianchib. 1861ITItalian artist (1861-1935)
- Damasus Zähringerb. 1899DEnot in their usual nameGerman priest and theologian (1899–1977)
- Damaso Munozb. 1986USAmerican football player
- Damaso Alexis Arencibia LantiguaESSpanish politician
- Damaso Garces RuizESSpanish politician
- Damaso CaprioglioITuniversity teacher
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 708 | #6,017 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 708 | #6,017 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 58 | #2,472 |
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.
- How do you pronounce Damaso?
- In Spanish /damaso/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Damaso a male or female name?
- Damaso is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Venezuela (asosab), Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), among others.
- In which country does Damaso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Damaso in Mexico, 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 Nicaragua, Damaso is the 383rd most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/damasoThe 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, “Damaso” — the 383rd most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.