Demaria
#10,298 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Demaria has been given to 450 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #10,298 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% girls, 13% boys all-time.
Babies named Demaria, 2025
1 in 368,000
Demaria 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Demaria over time
In 2025, Demaria went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Demaria?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,298
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Demaria 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demaria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Demarias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Demaria was born before 2009 — so the typical Demaria is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 43.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 391
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (169).
Is Demaria 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
- +1,062
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +5,419
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,776
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.47×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 37.5%
- Peak was 2007 (24)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.3% average annual change
Spellings of Demaria
Demaria is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 90.5% against Demaria's 0.06%.
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 Demaria is used
Across 1910–2025, Demaria was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 889,294 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 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. Demaria has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Demaria by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Demaria
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Demaria
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.