Dema
Dema was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,493 among girls’ names; 849 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dema by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dema?
#15,493 among girls’ names, 2025
Dema entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #15,493 in 2025.
24 babies in 1919, the peak
Dema peaked in 1919, when 24 girls were given it, #1,660 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,493 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,134 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,843 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,147 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,259 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,879 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,276 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,337 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,249 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,889 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #12,460 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,850 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,075 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,225 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,885 | 4.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,618 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,335 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,098 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,394 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,116 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,439 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,233 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,858 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,875 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,184 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,810 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,762 | 5.5 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,825 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,486 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,252 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,628 | 3.9 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,040 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,190 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,047 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,542 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,410 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,966 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,794 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,075 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,750 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,173 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,299 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,773 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,877 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,276 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,513 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,249 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,777 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,725 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,462 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,451 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,298 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,685 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,282 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,335 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,336 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,032 | 15.6 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,039 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,602 | 11.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,400 | 12.3 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,194 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,958 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,518 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,531 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,765 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,660 | 21.2 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,048 | 15.5 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,126 | 14.8 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,701 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,583 | 22.4 |
| 1914 | 12 | #2,042 | 15.8 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,922 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,071 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,824 | 19.1 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,811 | 20.2 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,286 | 14.4 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,280 | 32.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,676 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,242 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,573 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,111 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,350 | 30.5 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,528 | 25.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,002 | 16.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,549 | 23.2 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,232 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,655 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,540 | 22.4 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,028 | 42.4 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,382 | 26.3 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,171 | 33.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dema a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dema has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dema: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dema, and how old are they?
An estimated 325 Americans named Dema and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 576 people named Dema (530 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,743 babies since 1880, Dema is the second most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 851 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dema
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dema and names like it
- Compare Dema and DemiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sDema peaked in 1919.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dema since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Dema.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dema alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.