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Demetra

#12,224 in 2025Girls' name

Mother, through Δημήτηρ

Demetra has been given to 4,217 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #12,224 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 127 recorded.

Babies named Demetra, 2025

1 in 474,000

Demetra over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demetra: meaning, origin, and history

Mother, through Δημήτηρ

Ancient Greek

What Demetra means

Demetra belongs to the name family reached through Demetra → Δημήτηρ. Its meaning is “mother”.

Origin, language, and formation

Demetra is used in Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Demetra comes through Ancient Greek Δημήτηρ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Δημήτηρ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,205 girls were recorded with the name Demetra between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 127 in 1975; its best national rank was #900 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,091 in 2020 to #12,224 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,129 in 2015 to #12,224 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Demetra between 1975 and 1976. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1975; its best national rank was #4,946 in 1975.

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 Demetra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,224
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demetra 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demetra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demetras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demetra was born before 1972 — so the typical Demetra is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,528
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (999).

Is Demetra 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
+272
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,133
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,095
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.5%
Peak was 1975 (127)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#900
1966

Spellings of Demetra

Demetra is not the most common spelling — Demetria is, with 40.4% against Demetra's 15.5%.

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 Demetra is used

Across 1910–2025, Demetra was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 75,846 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 25,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 100,000

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

Demetra around the world

Where Demetra 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
    1996–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2000–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1956–1970
    #475
    in 1970

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Demetra

People whose public names include Demetra, 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.

Demetra in other languages

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

Dimitra

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

Demetra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,224
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,133
Best rank ever
#900
1966
Peak year
1975
127 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,205
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,946
1975
Peak year
1975
6 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1976
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Demetra

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

DemitraDemetriaDempseyDemiyahDemariaElectraDemarisDimitraElektraDemianaDemyaCleopatraAnitraDemiaDemayaDemariDemiDemetrisDemarieDemetriceDemetriusDemeshaDemaDemani

Names with a curve like Demetra

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

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Sibling names for Demetra

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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