Dami
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma plural de Damo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɑmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dami is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 66K
- ESSpain≈1 in 121K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma plural de Damo
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dami 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.
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Dami is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Javanese, dried rice straw; a field of dried rice stalks
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, accusative/genitive singular of dapmi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nia, stemlet on the rice kernel; chaff
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Finnish, clipping of Amsterdam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, inflection of damare:
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)
- Stephen Dami Mamzab. 1969NGNigerian Catholic Bishop
- Dami Ajayib. 1986NGa Nigerian poet and essayist of Yoruba descent (born 1986)
- Minzb. 1994NGnot in their usual nameNigerian musician
- Dami BarnesAUAustralian politician
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 38 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 233 | #86,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 204 | #90,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 204 | #85,297 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 43 | #49,838 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43 | #49,226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Dami mean, and where does it come from?
- forma plural de Damo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Dami?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑmi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Dami a male or female name?
- Dami is a female 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 Dami have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Dami in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dami.
- How common is the name Dami?
- In the United States, the national register counted 335 people named Dami in 2020, about 1 in 993 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dami?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/damiThe 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, “Dami”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.