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Demetre

#12,485 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Demetrius

Demetre has been given to 691 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #12,485 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Demetre, 2025

1 in 663,000

Demetre over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demetre: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Demetrius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demetre means

Demetre is a form of Demetrius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Demetre is used in Georgian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /dɛ.mɛtʼ.rɛ/ for Demetre.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Demetre → Demetrius. The family’s meaning is “belonging to Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), the earth goddess”, recorded in English with the source elements Dēmḗtrios.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Demetrius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 679 boys were recorded with the name Demetre between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 1992; its best national rank was #1,546 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,928 in 2020 to #12,485 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,195 in 2015 to #12,485 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Demetre between 1964 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1974; its best national rank was #6,988 in 1964.

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 Demetre?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,485
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demetre 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demetre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demetres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demetre was born before 1995 — so the typical Demetre is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
679
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (278).

Is Demetre 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
−3,288
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,557
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,290
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.8%
Peak was 1992 (57)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,546
1992

Spellings of Demetre

Demetre is not the most common spelling — Demetri is, with 21.5% against Demetre's 3.6%.

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 Demetre is used

Across 1910–2025, Demetre was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,487,646 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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

Demetre around the world

Where Demetre 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.

  • France
    1905–2023
    #4,442
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1955–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Demetre by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,485
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,557
Best rank ever
#1,546
1992
Peak year
1992
57 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
679
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,988
1964
Peak year
1974
7 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Demetre

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

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Sibling names for Demetre

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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