Name Awesome

Demi

#381 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Dimi

Demi has been given to 14,921 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #381 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 914 recorded.

Babies named Demi, 2025

1 in 4,120

Demi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02505007501K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demi: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dimi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demi means

Demi is a alternate transcription of Dimi.

Origin, language, and formation

Demi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dimi and Demetria.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Demi is pronounced /dəˈmiː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,869 girls were recorded with the name Demi between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 914 in 2020; its best national rank was #339 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #339 in 2020 to #381 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #601 in 2015 to #381 in 2025.

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Demi between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2023; its best national rank was #6,991 in 2023.

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 Demi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,120
804 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,000
0.05% of girls
Rank, 2025
#381
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,859 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demi 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 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 2,859 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demi was born before 2016 — so the typical Demi is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,869
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (5,069).

Is Demi 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
+71
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−42
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+220
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.0%
Peak was 2020 (914)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#339
2020

Spellings of Demi

Demi is not the most common spelling — Teri is, with 8.2% against Demi's 2.8%.

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 Demi is used

Across 2016–2025, Demi was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 290 girls, against 1 in 1,805 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in 7,143).

14345 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 290
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 323
  3. 3Maryland1 in 840
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 870
  5. 5Missouri1 in 1,099
  6. 6Illinois1 in 1,370
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 1,408
  8. 8Georgia1 in 1,493

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.

Geographically, Demi is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 96% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Demi around the world

Where Demi 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
    1996–2025
    #634
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1989–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2023
    #328
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1991–2025
    #413
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,075
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #328
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Demi

People whose public names include Demi, 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.

Demi in other languages

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

DamiDemyDemianDemionDimitria

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

Demi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#381
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 42
Best rank ever
#339
2020
Peak year
2020
914 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,869
Count in 2025
804

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,938
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,991
2023
Peak year
2023
12 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Demi

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

RemiNoemiDemaEmiDemetriaDemetraDemyaDemiaNohemiAkemiKemiDemriDemitraDemayaDemariDempseyDemiyahDemiiDemariaDemaniDemarisRhemiHemiDemiana

Names with a curve like Demi

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

WinterMaryamAstridMiraBlakeAspenCharliPhoenixZahraAminaAndiCeline

Sibling names for Demi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Demi

Top names of 2020, Demi's peak yearThe 2020s in fullOther names that peaked in 2020Girls' names starting with D