Damaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- duh-MY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Damaya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
Where does Damaya come from?
Modern: Da- added to Maya
Is Damaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Damaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Damaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 51% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Damaya, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,625th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Damaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 71 girls in the US were given Damaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,126, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Damaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,625 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,766 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,176 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,225 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,474 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,164 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,114 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,481 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,527 |
Nicknames for Damaya
- Maya 1,420 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Damaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amaya Kaliyah Zaniyah Alaya Anaya Araya Jaliyah Aaliyah Janiyah Inaya Zariah Malaya
Other spellings of Damaya
Names related to Damaya
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Damaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/damaya, updated 20 October 2026.