Demetri
Demetri was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,688 among boys’ names; 4,269 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,110 Americans named Demetri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demetri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Demetri?
#2,688 among boys’ names, 2025
Demetri fell from #1,794 in 2015 to #2,688 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 43.8 to 28.1 per million.
178 babies in 1992, the peak
Demetri peaked in 1992, when 178 boys were given it, #782 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,688 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 53 | #2,534 | 30.8 |
| 2023 | 79 | #1,957 | 46.2 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,474 | 32.1 |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,080 | 40.0 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,097 | 38.8 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,063 | 39.0 |
| 2018 | 85 | #1,794 | 46.8 |
| 2017 | 86 | #1,784 | 46.5 |
| 2016 | 76 | #1,928 | 40.0 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 84 | #1,794 | 43.8 |
| 2014 | 85 | #1,769 | 44.3 |
| 2013 | 86 | #1,713 | 45.5 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,527 | 55.4 |
| 2011 | 92 | #1,647 | 48.4 |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,471 | 57.9 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,354 | 64.0 |
| 2008 | 94 | #1,643 | 46.1 |
| 2007 | 81 | #1,799 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,501 | 49.1 |
| 2005 | 82 | #1,650 | 41.1 |
| 2004 | 90 | #1,491 | 45.3 |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,345 | 51.6 |
| 2002 | 114 | #1,209 | 58.7 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,285 | 52.5 |
| 2000 | 100 | #1,290 | 50.9 |
| 1999 | 91 | #1,319 | 47.4 |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,147 | 57.0 |
| 1997 | 102 | #1,177 | 54.1 |
| 1996 | 94 | #1,198 | 49.6 |
| 1995 | 102 | #1,131 | 53.6 |
| 1994 | 149 | #885 | 77.1 |
| 1993 | 157 | #843 | 80.0 |
| 1992 | 178 | #782 | 89.1 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,102 | 48.5 |
| 1990 | 52 | #1,587 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,801 | 21.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,044 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 38 | #1,739 | 20.4 |
| 1986 | 47 | #1,459 | 25.5 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,804 | 17.9 |
| 1984 | 43 | #1,461 | 23.8 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,352 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 31 | #1,824 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,098 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,461 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 31 | #1,797 | 18.0 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,589 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,869 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,261 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,669 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,297 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,332 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,030 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,390 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 21 | #1,951 | 11.3 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,818 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,477 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,864 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,063 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,733 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,337 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 16 | #2,062 | 7.9 |
| 1962 | 17 | #1,985 | 8.2 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,346 | 6.1 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,921 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,695 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,632 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,657 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,624 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,011 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,512 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demetri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,269 Americans recorded as Demetri, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 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 Demetri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demetri, and how old are they?
4,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,269 Americans ever recorded as Demetri. The median Demetri alive today is 25 years old; half are between 14 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 3,586 people named Demetri (196 women and girls, 3,390 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,801 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 101 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 382 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 938 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Demetri born?
The states with the most babies named Demetri are California, New York and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,557 | 0.7× |
| New York | 5 | #1,824 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,339 | 0.7× |
Where Demetri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Demetri is most over-represented in New York: since 1953 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Demetri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 10,655 babies since 1880, Demetri is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 103 babies (47%), again the 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 Demetri
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 Demetri and names like it
- Compare Demetri and DemetrioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDemetri peaked in 1992.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demetri since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Demetri.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Demetri alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.