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Demian

#2,489 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Demyan

Demian has been given to 2,119 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #2,489 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 90 recorded.

Babies named Demian, 2025

1 in 61,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demian: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Demyan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Demian means

Demian is a alternate transcription of Demyan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Demyan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,105 boys were recorded with the name Demian between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 90 in 2007; its best national rank was #920 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,698 in 2020 to #2,489 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,931 in 2015 to #2,489 in 2025.

In the United States, 14 girls were recorded with the name Demian between 1969 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1969; its best national rank was #6,102 in 1969.

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 Demian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 61,400
54 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,489
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
42,555 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demian 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 42,555 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demian was born before 2007 — so the typical Demian is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,105
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (564).

Is Demian 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
−136
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+209
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+442
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2007 (90)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#920
1974

Spellings of Demian

Demian is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 26.7% against Demian's 0.29%.

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 Demian is used

Across 1910–2025, Demian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 84,185 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Demian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Demian around the world

Where Demian 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
    2006–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #2,891
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Demian

People whose public names include Demian, 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.

Demian in other languages

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

DemiDemionDemyan

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

Demian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,489
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 209
Best rank ever
#920
1974
Peak year
2007
90 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,105
Count in 2025
54

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,102
1969
Peak year
1969
7 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Demian

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

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Names with a curve like Demian

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

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Sibling names for Demian

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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