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Demetria

#5,284 in 2025Girls' name

Belonging to Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), the earth goddess, through Demetrius

Demetria has been given to 11,101 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #5,284 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 371 recorded.

Babies named Demetria, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demetria: meaning, origin, and history

Belonging to Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), the earth goddess, through Demetrius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demetria means

Demetria belongs to the name family reached through Demetria → Demetrius. Its meaning is “belonging to Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), the earth goddess”.

Origin, language, and formation

Demetria is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Demetrius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Demetria is pronounced /dɪˈmiːtɹiə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,960 girls were recorded with the name Demetria between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 371 in 1974; its best national rank was #479 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,046 in 2020 to #5,284 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,189 in 2015 to #5,284 in 2025.

In the United States, 141 boys were recorded with the name Demetria between 1967 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,178 in 1974.

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 Demetria?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,284
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demetria 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demetria. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demetrias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demetria was born before 1980 — so the typical Demetria is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
10,657
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.9% of all recorded uses (3,273).

Is Demetria 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
+54
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−238
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,095
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.5%
Peak was 1974 (371)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#479
1974

Spellings of Demetria

Demetria is the most-used spelling, taking 52.7% of the 20,788 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Demetria is used

Across 1910–2025, Demetria was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 17,418 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,556
  2. 2Georgia1 in 5,882
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 5,882
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 6,250
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 7,143
  6. 6Alabama1 in 9,091
  7. 7Florida1 in 9,091
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 11,111

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

Demetria around the world

Where Demetria 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1972–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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 Demetria

People whose public names include Demetria, 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.

Demetria by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,284
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 238
Best rank ever
#479
1974
Peak year
1974
371 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,960
Count in 2025
24

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,178
1974
Peak year
1977
12 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
141
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Demetria

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

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Names with a curve like Demetria

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

JanelChristalStaciaHolliMaricelaCatrinaKamiRichelleMalissaNikiCariMelisa

Sibling names for Demetria

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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