Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dam through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 69
- 69 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1984. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 798 as a first name in 2020; 3,550 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dam’s family of names
In German usage, Dam as a surname has a related form in Adam.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Dam
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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>99% boys