Demarius

#5,919 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Demarius has been given to 2,024 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #5,919 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 102 recorded.

Babies named Demarius, 2025

1 in 221,000

Demarius over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demarius: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demarius means

Demarius is a given name.

The naming story behind Demarius

Wikidata records Demarius as a given name. The entity identifier is Q121514797, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,024 boys were recorded with the name Demarius between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 102 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,394 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,509 in 2020 to #5,919 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,775 in 2015 to #5,919 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Demarius?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 221,000; 15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 114,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #5,919; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 153,194 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Demarius 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demarius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demariuss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demarius was born before 2003 — so the typical Demarius is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 56.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 2,024; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (618).

Is Demarius 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: −1,329; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −410; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −3,144; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.35×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 14.7%; Peak was 2006 (102)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,394; 1991

Spellings of Demarius

Demarius is not the most common spelling — Darius is, with 40.2% against Demarius's 1.5%.

Darius40.2%54,006
Demetrius26.9%36,064
Demarcus10.1%13,618
Demario4.7%6,364
Demarion2.7%3,565
Damarcus2.4%3,262
Demari2.1%2,828
Marius2.0%2,654

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 Demarius is used

Across 1910–2025, Demarius was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 109,508 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 20,000
2Georgia1 in 33,333
3Alabama1 in 50,000
4Tennessee1 in 50,000
5Florida1 in 100,000
6Illinois1 in 100,000
7Michigan1 in 100,000
8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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. Demarius has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Demarius

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

Demarius BoldsBasketball player
b. 1984

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.

Demarius by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #5,919
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 410
Best rank ever: #1,394; 1991
Peak year: 2006; 102 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 2,024
Count in 2025: 15

Names similar to Demarius

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

Demitrius Demetrius Demaryius Demetric Demerius Demetris Demetrio Demarion Demitri Demonte Demtrius Demontae Demetrios Demontre Jamarius Aurelius Demetri Dempsey Damarius Demian Jadarius Demarrius Demetrious Tiberius

Names with a curve like Demarius

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

Jarren Deanthony Favian Demitri Chasen Rayvon Kevyn Brando Karon Dontrell Jalil Daven

Sibling names for Demarius

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

For a sister

Taniya Jazmyne Rhianna Yahaira Jaiden Jamya Abigale Abigayle

For a brother

Keven Zakary Nathen Kale Shamar Jamarcus Gavyn Nevin

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