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Demetrios

#5,667 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Demetrius

Demetrios has been given to 2,770 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #5,667 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 77 recorded.

Babies named Demetrios, 2025

1 in 207,000

Demetrios over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demetrios: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Demetrius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demetrios means

Demetrios is a form of Demetrius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Demetrios → 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, 2,770 boys were recorded with the name Demetrios between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 77 in 1974; its best national rank was #925 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,510 in 2020 to #5,667 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,451 in 2015 to #5,667 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 Demetrios?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,667
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demetrios 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demetrios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demetrioss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demetrios was born before 1984 — so the typical Demetrios is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,659
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (620).

Is Demetrios 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
+50
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−157
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,216
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.8%
Peak was 1974 (77)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#925
1969

Spellings of Demetrios

Demetrios is not the most common spelling — Demetrius is, with 59.1% against Demetrios's 4.5%.

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 Demetrios is used

Across 1910–2025, Demetrios was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 62,219 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 33,333
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Connecticut1 in —
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Maryland1 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. Demetrios has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Demetrios around the world

Where Demetrios 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
    1996–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–2018
    #2,281
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1945–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Demetrios in other languages

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

DmitriDmitryDemeterDemetreDimitarDimitriDimitryDmitriyDemetrioDemetrisDimitrisDemetriusDimitriosMimisTakisMitsosDumitruDemétrioDimitrijDimitrosDemetriusz

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

Demetrios by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,667
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 157
Best rank ever
#925
1969
Peak year
1974
77 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,770
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Demetrios

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

DemitriusDemitriosDemetrisDemetrioDemarionDemetricDemariusDemetriousDimitriosDemonteDemitriDemetriceDemarquisDemetriDempseyDemontaeDemarcoDemariDemarioDemarcusDemontreDemetruisDemianDemetrius

Names with a curve like Demetrios

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

ShanTorrenceDarbyJebChristosTorranceRondellLamonteDarynSedrickTitoRonnell

Sibling names for Demetrios

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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