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Demetri

#2,688 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Demetri has been given to 4,269 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #2,688 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 178 recorded.

Babies named Demetri, 2025

1 in 69,100

Demetri over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demetri: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demetri means

Demetri is a given name.

The naming story behind Demetri

Wikidata records Demetri as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q26198133, 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, 4,111 boys were recorded with the name Demetri between 1953 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 178 in 1992; its best national rank was #782 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,097 in 2020 to #2,688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,794 in 2015 to #2,688 in 2025.

In the United States, 158 girls were recorded with the name Demetri between 1959 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1972; its best national rank was #3,754 in 1972.

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 Demetri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 35,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,688
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demetri 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 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demetri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demetris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demetri was born before 2001 — so the typical Demetri is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,111
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (1,132).

Is Demetri 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
−154
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−591
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−894
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.0%
Peak was 1992 (178)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#782
1992

Spellings of Demetri

Demetri is not the most common spelling — Demetrius is, with 50.0% against Demetri's 5.7%.

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 Demetri is used

Across 2016–2025, Demetri was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 40,220 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2Florida1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

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.

Demetri around the world

Where Demetri 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
    1996–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1992–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1957–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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 Demetri

People whose public names include Demetri, 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.

Demetri in other languages

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

DimitriDemetrioDemetrius

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

Demetri by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 591
Best rank ever
#782
1992
Peak year
1992
178 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,111
Count in 2025
48

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,754
1972
Peak year
1972
16 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Demetri

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

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Names with a curve like Demetri

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

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Sibling names for Demetri

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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