Damaris
Fewer than 150 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name is Greek, from a word for a young calf or heifer.
Damaris Pronunciation
Damaris is pronounced dah-MAH-rees (/daˈmaris/).
What Damaris means
Where Damaris comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Damaris comes from Greek, and the trail leads back to δάμαλις, damalis, a young cow or heifer. The short meaning carried on the Polish forms reads plainly: cielę, jałówka, calf and heifer. A herding word became a person's name. Ancient Greek families kept cattle close, and a girl could take her name from the animal that stood for food and wealth.
The name has one famous early bearer. In the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 17, verse 34, Damaris is an Athenian woman who listens to Paul on the Areopagus and believes. That single line gave the name a long afterlife in Christian Europe.
English and Spanish speakers took it up most. Across Latin America it stays common, and Spanish keeps it as Dámaris, with the stress marked on the first syllable.
In a Polish class register, Damaris sits apart from the Zofias and Julias around it. It has no Polish diminutive of its own. The origin holds steady behind it: a Greek word for a young cow.
How many people are named Damaris
1 in 168238 women in Poland is named Damaris. 134 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2858 among female names.
Damaris's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Damaris as a middle name
Damaris is a first name for 134 women in Poland and a middle name for another 67, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 826th, between Chioma (67) and Dana (67).
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