Demari
#1,452 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Demari has been given to 3,105 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #1,452 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 166 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Demari, 2025
1 in 27,000
Demari over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Demari over time
In 2025, Demari went to 8% girls and 92% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Demari?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 27,000
- 123 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 13,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,452
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 18,683 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Demari sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 18,683 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Demaris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Demari was born before 2015 — so the typical Demari is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 42.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,828
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (1,191).
Is Demari 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
- +80
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −65
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −63
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.99×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 74.1%
- Peak was 2021 (166)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.0% average annual change
Spellings of Demari
Demari is not the most common spelling — Amari is, with 21.1% against Demari's 1.9%.
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 Demari is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Demari was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,439 boys, against 1 in 11,721 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 2,439
- 2Alabama1 in 4,545
- 3Georgia1 in 5,000
- 4Maryland1 in 5,556
- 5Tennessee1 in 5,882
- 6Louisiana1 in 6,667
- 7District of Columbia1 in 7,143
- 8Illinois1 in 7,143
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.
Where Demari is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Demari was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,246,291 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Demari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Demari around the world
Where Demari 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.
- England & Wales2004–2025#3,256in 2025
- Canada2017–2021#2,989in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Demari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Demari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Demari
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Demari, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Demari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.