Demetrious
Demetrious was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,415 among boys’ names; 1,824 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Demetrious and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 23 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demetrious by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Demetrious?
#8,415 among boys’ names, 2025
Demetrious fell from #5,109 in 2015 to #8,415 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 5.3 per million.
59 babies in 1991, the peak
Demetrious peaked in 1991, when 59 boys were given it, #1,477 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,415 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,487 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,999 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,055 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,795 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,378 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,500 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,028 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,341 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,436 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,109 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,287 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,023 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,528 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,710 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,019 | 13.0 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,492 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,503 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 34 | #3,272 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,323 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,967 | 17.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,300 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,143 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,939 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,872 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,164 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 39 | #2,304 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,872 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,839 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 33 | #2,389 | 17.4 |
| 1995 | 45 | #1,888 | 23.6 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,931 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,356 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 56 | #1,573 | 28.0 |
| 1991 | 59 | #1,477 | 29.2 |
| 1990 | 48 | #1,683 | 23.4 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,736 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 35 | #1,881 | 18.3 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,686 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 39 | #1,652 | 21.2 |
| 1985 | 26 | #2,132 | 14.1 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,456 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,870 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,784 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 29 | #1,906 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,820 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 43 | #1,423 | 25.0 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,698 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 32 | #1,679 | 19.5 |
| 1976 | 28 | #1,792 | 17.8 |
| 1975 | 31 | #1,636 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 37 | #1,419 | 23.5 |
| 1973 | 36 | #1,407 | 23.1 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,882 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 39 | #1,355 | 22.1 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,808 | 12.9 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,819 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 23 | #1,654 | 13.2 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,768 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 22 | #1,661 | 12.3 |
| 1965 | 14 | #2,202 | 7.5 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,234 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,565 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,892 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,740 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,448 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,564 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,090 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,835 | 4.3 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,952 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,857 | 2.6 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,855 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demetrious a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,824 Americans recorded as Demetrious, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 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 Demetrious: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demetrious, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,824 Americans ever recorded as Demetrious. The median Demetrious alive today is 35 years old; half are between 23 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,354 people named Demetrious (100 women and girls, 1,254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,670 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 84 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 414 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 594 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 447 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 168 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 48,942 babies since 1880, Demetrious is the fifth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 203 babies (4.4%), the third 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 Demetrious
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 Demetrious and names like it
- Compare Demetrious and DemetriusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDemetrious peaked in 1991.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demetrious since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Demetrious.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Demetrious alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.