Damari is a modern American coinage, usually read as a blend of Damarion or Damarcus with Amari, which is often explained as "strength" or "eternal"; it has no single established meaning. It belongs to the rhythmic -ari names like Amari, Jamari and Kamari that rose in the 2000s and 2010s. Damari climbed from number 1948 in 2000, peaked at number 782 in 2016, briefly left the US top 1000 in 2023 and ranks number 958 among boys' names in 2025.