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Demarcus

#2,168 in 2025Boys' name

Combination of De- and Marcus; deeper meaning uncertain

Demarcus has been given to 13,647 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #2,168 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 511 recorded.

Babies named Demarcus, 2025

1 in 50,200

Demarcus over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demarcus: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of De- and Marcus; deeper meaning uncertain

Modern American formation with a Roman name

About Demarcus

Demarcus, often styled DeMarcus, is a modern American name formed from the prefix De- and Marcus. It combines a familiar contemporary naming pattern with an ancient Roman personal name. Football player DeMarcus Ware and basketball player DeMarcus Cousins have given the spelling particular visibility in professional sport.

Formation and older history

The modern formation joins De- to Marcus as a complete first name. The capital M in DeMarcus makes the two parts especially visible, while Demarcus writes them as one continuous word. Both styles occur in personal use.

Marcus was an ancient Roman name. Its deeper origin is uncertain: proposed explanations connect it with Mars, the Roman god of war, or with the Etruscan name Marce. Those possibilities do not establish a single definite translation for Demarcus.

Marcus and Mark belong to the same older name family, while DeMarcus preserves the longer Roman form within its newer shape. The De- opening belongs to a modern American formation rather than the original Roman name.

The three-part rhythm places the main emphasis on Marcus, with a lighter opening De-. The spelling's internal capital is a matter of written presentation rather than an extra syllable.

DeMarcus Ware

DeMarcus Ware played in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos. He became a leading defensive player, earning nine Pro Bowl selections across his career.

Ware helped Denver win Super Bowl 50 against the Carolina Panthers. His contribution in that championship game included two sacks. The victory supplied a team championship alongside his individual honors.

In 2023 he entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame. His career connects DeMarcus with both a long period of professional achievement and one of American football's highest forms of recognition.

Ware led the NFL in sacks twice, recording 20 in 2008 and 15.5 in 2010. His nine seasons with Dallas were followed by three with Denver, connecting his individual defensive records with a later team championship.

DeMarcus Cousins

Basketball player DeMarcus Cousins represented the United States in major international competition. He won gold with the American team at the 2014 FIBA World Cup and again at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

His Olympic gold came after a strong performance in the championship game. The achievement gives the name a second major sporting association, in a different game and an international tournament setting.

Ware and Cousins are separate bearers of the same modern formation. Their careers place it in both football and basketball rather than tying its public recognition to one athlete alone.

American usage

Demarcus reached its largest annual American male total in 1991, with 511 boys and a rank of #436. In 2025 it was given to 66 boys.

The modern peak preceded the professional achievements of Ware and Cousins. Their careers belong to the name's subsequent public history.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Wiktionary and Wikipedia material is adapted with attribution under CC BY-SA 4.0 where applicable. American popularity figures use the local Social Security Administration series for this exact spelling; name-sex-year totals below five are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How popular is Demarcus?

In 2025, Demarcus ranked #2,168 among boys in the United States, with 66 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for boys in 1956; its largest annual count was 511 in 1991. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.

How common is Demarcus?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,168
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demarcus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demarcus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demarcuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demarcus was born before 1995 — so the typical Demarcus is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13,618
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (4,252).

Is Demarcus rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−11
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−870
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,086
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.9%
Peak was 1991 (511)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#429
1988

Spellings of Demarcus

Demarcus is not the most common spelling — Marcus is, with 86.6% against Demarcus's 4.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Demarcus is used

Across 2016–2025, Demarcus was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,724 boys, against 1 in 12,995 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

158 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,724
  2. 2Alabama1 in 3,448
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 3,448
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 5,263
  5. 5Georgia1 in 6,250
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 8,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 10,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Demarcus around the world

Where Demarcus ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2015–2017
    #2,308
    in 2017

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Demarcus

People whose public names include Demarcus, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Demarcus in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Demarcus. Linked forms have their own page here.

D'Marcus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Demarcus by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,168
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 870
Best rank ever
#429
1988
Peak year
1991
511 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,618
Count in 2025
66

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,719
1986
Peak year
1986
10 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Demarcus

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DemarionDemetrioDemarioDemarcoDemetrisDemetriusDemetricDemariusDempseyDemetriJamarcusAtticusDemetriosDemondDemonteDemitriDamarcusDemitriusLamarcusDemontaeDemariDemontreDemianDemetrious

Names with a curve like Demarcus

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Demarcus, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Demarcus

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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