Dequarius
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Dequarius has been given to 348 babies in the U.S. since 1985. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Dequarius, 2018
1 in 703,000
Dequarius over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Dequarius?
Dequarius had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Dequarius sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dequarius. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Dequariuss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Dequarius was born before 1998 — so the typical Dequarius is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 51.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 348
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (178).
Is Dequarius 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (28)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.9% average annual change
Spellings of Dequarius
Dequarius is not the most common spelling — Demarius is, with 62.5% against Dequarius's 10.7%.
Where Dequarius is used
Across 1910–2025, Dequarius was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 626,247 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3Mississippi1 in —
- 4South Carolina1 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. Dequarius has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Dequarius by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Dequarius
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Dequarius
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.