Damien
46
Babies in 2024
-39%
10-year change
2007
Peak · 118
-22%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Damien
Damien peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (118 babies in 2007) and has remained in active use — 46 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Damien reached its peak in 2007, when 118 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #319 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 46 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,235 boys have been officially registered with the name Damien in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 609 boys were registered with the name, starting from 75 in 2014 and ending at 46 in 2024.