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Demon

#12,486 in 2025Boys' name

Ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state

Demon has been given to 850 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #12,486 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Demon, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Demon: meaning, origin, and history

Ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state

Ancient Greek

What Demon means

Demon means “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”, associated with dêmos.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Demon (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Demon is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Demon comes through Ancient Greek δῆμος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Demon is pronounced /ˈdiː.mən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 850 boys were recorded with the name Demon between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,477 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,813 in 2020 to #12,486 in 2025.

How common is Demon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,486
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Demon 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Demon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Demons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Demon was born before 1987 — so the typical Demon is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
850
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (246).

Is Demon 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
−1,228
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,673
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1974 (35)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,477
1974

Spellings of Demon

Demon is not the most common spelling — Dean is, with 14.4% against Demon's 0.06%.

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 Demon is used

Across 1910–2025, Demon was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 689,554 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Demon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Demon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,486
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,673
Best rank ever
#1,477
1974
Peak year
1974
35 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
850
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Demon

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

DemarDemirDemaniDemoniDemontaDemianKemonDemarkoDemetreTimonSymonDemariDezmonDaimonKamonDemauriEmonDembaDesmonJamonDemitriDemontaeDemontJermon

Sibling names for Demon

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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