Damia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek name linked to Demeter's cult; possibly from damios 'subduing'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Damia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 49K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.5K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 97K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek name linked to Demeter's cult; possibly from damios 'subduing'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Damia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 5 | Damia | 15 |
| ES Spain | 1,023 | 1 in 49K | 1K | Damia | 80 |
| US United States | 959 | 1 in 347K | 908 | Damia | 55 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 97K | listed | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 269K | 8 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; This page lists the top 100 names in Malaysia for boys and girls, published by Students of the World.; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Damia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Du grec Damia, épiclèse de Déméter; fête liée au calendrier des saints non précisée.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme féminine de Damien; origine grecque, lié à Déméter.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dāmium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Tonio Damiab. 1950ITItalian filmmaker
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 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 286 | #12,522 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 286 | #12,499 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Damia mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek name linked to Demeter's cult; possibly from damios 'subduing'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Damia a male or female name?
- Damia is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Damia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Damia in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled damia.
- How common is the name Damia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,023 people named Damia, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/damiaThe 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, “Damia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.