Demetre
Demetre was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,485 among boys’ names; 691 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demetre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Demetre?
#12,485 among boys’ names, 2025
Demetre fell from #8,195 in 2015 to #12,485 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.7 to 2.9 per million.
57 babies in 1992, the peak
Demetre peaked in 1992, when 57 boys were given it, #1,546 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,485 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,197 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,468 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,210 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,928 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,314 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,934 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,727 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,195 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,065 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 13 | #6,328 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,315 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,228 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,718 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,174 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,319 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,016 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,905 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,785 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,632 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,864 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,212 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,942 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,092 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,869 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,514 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,271 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,862 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,731 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,225 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 48 | #1,768 | 24.5 |
| 1992 | 57 | #1,546 | 28.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,481 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 13 | #4,220 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,074 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,910 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,071 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,371 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,447 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,761 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,315 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,233 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,598 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,502 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,709 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,430 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,760 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,170 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,084 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,191 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demetre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 691 Americans recorded as Demetre, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Demetre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demetre, and how old are they?
An estimated 666 Americans named Demetre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 20 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 644 people named Demetre (53 women and girls, 591 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 634 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 10,655 babies since 1880, Demetre is the fourth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 103 babies (4.9%), again the fourth most given.
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 Demetre
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 Demetre and names like it
- Compare Demetre and DemetriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDemetre peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demetre since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Demetre.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Demetre alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.