Damma

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Damma is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Damma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Damma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
IN India—226—

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)

Damma is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Sinhala surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sri Lanka

    Also written ධම්ම්, ධම්ම, ධමීමි

  • Thai surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India

    Also written ดำมา, ดุลมา, ดลมา, Dämmä, ดิลิมา

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kuwait, Nigeria

    Also written Dámma

32 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)

Damma is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In pi, gerundive of dameti (“to tame”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Maltese, die (polyhedron used in games of chance)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, (male or female) fallow deer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, to dust, to remove dust

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, A fallow deer

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Damma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—536#6,633
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—226#16,302

Reference works 1

  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

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Damma is most frequently recorded in India.

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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, “Damma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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