Damaso
Dámaso is a Spanish masculine given name. The name is equivalent to that of Pope Damasus I in English. The name also exists in Italian as Damaso, though it is uncommon.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Damaso
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Dámaso is a Spanish masculine given name. The name is equivalent to that of Pope Damasus I in English. The name also exists in Italian as Damaso, though it is uncommon.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Damaso
Damaso first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1953, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1983: 10 births, good for #3,884 nationwide. About 22% of every Damaso on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Damaso last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 275 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Notable people named Damaso
A small selection from Wikipedia. Tap "Read more" below to see the full list on Wikipedia.
- Dámaso Alonso (1898–1990), Spanish poet
- Dámaso Berenguer, 1st Count of Xauen (1873–1953), Spanish soldier and politician
- Dámaso Blanco (born 1941), Venezuelan baseball third baseman
- Dámaso Centeno (1850–1892), Argentine politician and orphanage founder
- Dámaso Espino (born 1983), Panamanian baseball catcher
- Dámaso García (1957–2020), Dominican baseball player
- Dámaso González (1948–2017), Spanish bullfighter
- Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga (1771–1848), Uruguayan priest, naturalist and botanist
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About the name Damaso
Damaso is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1953 and has accumulated 275 births in the dataset. Damaso's peak popularity came in 1983 when it ranked #3,884. Use the chart and map above to compare Damaso's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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