Demaya
Demaya was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,632 among girls’ names; 290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Demaya?
#13,632 among girls’ names, 2025
Demaya fell from #12,129 in 2015 to #13,632 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
23 babies in 2006, the peak
Demaya peaked in 2006, when 23 girls were given it, #5,770 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,632 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,584 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,746 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,471 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,912 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,666 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,406 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,578 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,129 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,401 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,463 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,629 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,716 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,497 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,556 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,009 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,475 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,770 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,600 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,943 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,661 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,422 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,325 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,374 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,440 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,312 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,070 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,002 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Demaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Demaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Demaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Demaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 223 people named Demaya (222 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 3,671 babies since 1880, Demaya is the sixth most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 42 babies (14%), the fourth 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 Demaya
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 Demaya and names like it
- Compare Demaya and DemaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDemaya peaked in 2006.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Demaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Demaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.