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Demelza

#13,633 in 2025Girls' name

Fort of Melsa

Demelza has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #13,633 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Demelza, 2025

1 in 553,000

Demelza over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demelza: meaning, origin, and history

Fort of Melsa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demelza means

Demelza means “fort of Melsa”, associated with Dinmelsa.

Origin, language, and formation

Demelza is used in English.

Demelza comes through Cornish Dinmelsa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 50 girls were recorded with the name Demelza between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2020; its best national rank was #8,806 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,472 in 2020 to #13,633 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Demelza?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,633
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demelza sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demelza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demelzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demelza was born before 2020 — so the typical Demelza is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
50
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Choose a decade

2020s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Demelza 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,161
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2020 (7)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,806
1978

Spellings of Demelza

Demelza is not the most common spelling — Emelia is, with 71.3% against Demelza's 0.25%.

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.

Demelza around the world

Where Demelza 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1977–1977
    #448
    in 1977
  • Ireland
    1976–1981
    #471
    in 1981
  • France
    2023–2025
    #7,035
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1973–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Demelza by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,633
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,161
Best rank ever
#8,806
1978
Peak year
2020
7 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
50
Count in 2025
6

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

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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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