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Demetris

#10,978 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Demetris has been given to 3,505 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #10,978 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 99 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.

Babies named Demetris, 2025

1 in 553,000

Demetris over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Demetris over time

In 2025, Demetris went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19492025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Demetris: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demetris means

Demetris is a given name.

The naming story behind Demetris

Wikidata records Demetris as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q104413762, 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, 2,613 boys were recorded with the name Demetris between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,063 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,772 in 2020 to #10,978 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,925 in 2015 to #10,978 in 2025.

In the United States, 892 girls were recorded with the name Demetris between 1951 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,967 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.

How common is Demetris?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,978
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demetris 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demetris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demetriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demetris was born before 1989 — so the typical Demetris is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,607
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (661).

Is Demetris 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
+277
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,206
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,053
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.1%
Peak was 1990 (99)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,063
1990

Spellings of Demetris

Demetris is not the most common spelling — Demetrius is, with 58.5% against Demetris's 4.2%.

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 Demetris is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Demetris was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 124,913 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 25,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 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. Demetris has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Demetris is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Demetris was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 232,301 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8South Carolina1 in —

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

Demetris around the world

Where Demetris 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
    1998–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Demetris

People whose public names include Demetris, 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.

Demetris in other languages

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

DemetriosDemetrius

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

Demetris by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,206
Best rank ever
#1,063
1990
Peak year
1990
99 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,613
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,967
1975
Peak year
1975
45 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
892
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Demetris

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

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Names with a curve like Demetris

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

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Sibling names for Demetris

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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