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Damon

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈdeɪmən//

A male given name from Ancient Greek.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Ancient Greek.

  2. 2

    A male given name from Albanian.

  3. 3

    An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Δάμων (Dámōn), a name famous for the story of Damon and Pythias; derivative of δαμάζω (damázō, “to tame, subdue”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).