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Demir

#1,829 in 2025Boys' name

Iron

Demir has been given to 1,364 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,829 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Demir, 2025

1 in 38,100

Demir over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demir: meaning, origin, and history

Iron

Proto-Turkic

What Demir means

Demir means “iron”, associated with demir.

Origin, language, and formation

Demir is used in Albanian and Turkish. Its origins include Proto-Turkic.

Demir comes through Ottoman Turkish دمیر.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Demir is pronounced /deˈmiɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,364 boys were recorded with the name Demir between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 137 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,367 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,624 in 2020 to #1,829 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,436 in 2015 to #1,829 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 Demir?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 38,100
87 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,829
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,414 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demir 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,414 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demir was born before 2019 — so the typical Demir is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,364
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (653).

Is Demir 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
−117
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−205
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+607
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.5%
Peak was 2022 (137)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,367
2022

Spellings of Demir

Demir is not the most common spelling — Devin is, with 40.9% against Demir's 0.36%.

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 Demir is used

Across 2016–2025, Demir was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 7,692 boys, against 1 in 16,687 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 7,692
  2. 2Florida1 in 8,333
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 8,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 12,500
  5. 5Michigan1 in 12,500
  6. 6New York1 in 14,286
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 20,000

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.

Demir around the world

Where Demir 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
    2000–2025
    #856
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2016
    #707
    in 2016
  • France
    2006–2025
    #1,914
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Demir by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,829
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 205
Best rank ever
#1,367
2022
Peak year
2022
137 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,364
Count in 2025
87

Names similar to Demir

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

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Sibling names for Demir

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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