Demetris
Demetris was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,978 among boys’ names; 3,505 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Demetris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demetris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Demetris?
#10,978 among boys’ names, 2025
Demetris fell from #4,925 in 2015 to #10,978 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.9 to 3.5 per million.
108 babies in 1990, the peak
Demetris peaked in 1990, when 108 babies were given it (99 boys, #1,063 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #10,978 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 6 | #11,255 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 9 | #8,410 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 14 | #6,218 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 15 | #5,833 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 15 | #5,772 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 13 | #6,501 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 12 | #6,796 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 16 | #5,585 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 16 | #5,607 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 19 | #4,925 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 27 | #3,810 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 14 | #5,987 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 25 | #4,037 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 29 | #3,622 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 29 | #3,648 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 24 | #4,188 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 27 | #3,850 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 31 | #3,456 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 34 | #3,168 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 36 | #2,908 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 38 | #2,750 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 30 | #3,130 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 50 | #2,132 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 39 | #2,492 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 49 | #2,058 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,099 | 36 | #2,473 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 48 | #1,992 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 33 | #2,466 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 60 | #1,617 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 51 | #1,736 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 63 | #1,494 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,910 | 84 | #1,234 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,231 | 82 | #1,244 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,327 | 94 | #1,127 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,660 | 99 | #1,063 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,900 | 82 | #1,171 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,980 | 65 | #1,269 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,159 | 62 | #1,236 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,572 | 75 | #1,077 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,881 | 52 | #1,333 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,437 | 55 | #1,240 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,356 | 59 | #1,181 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,546 | 70 | #1,089 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,795 | 69 | #1,096 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,532 | 72 | #1,067 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,362 | 64 | #1,120 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,317 | 59 | #1,154 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,193 | 59 | #1,128 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,448 | 56 | #1,146 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,967 | 61 | #1,070 |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,106 | 40 | #1,356 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,184 | 46 | #1,225 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,082 | 47 | #1,200 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,346 | 31 | #1,566 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,208 | 32 | #1,500 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,657 | 25 | #1,651 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,315 | 29 | #1,459 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,387 | 15 | #2,049 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,365 | 19 | #1,765 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,420 | 16 | #2,003 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,363 | 13 | #2,338 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,721 | 7 | #3,393 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,948 | 14 | #2,210 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,772 | 19 | #1,894 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,833 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,718 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,567 | 7 | #3,345 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,991 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,172 | 8 | #3,020 |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,587 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,937 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,866 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,878 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,772 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,400 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Demetris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,505 Americans recorded as Demetris, 25% are girls and 75% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Demetris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demetris, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,505 Americans ever recorded as Demetris. The median Demetris alive today is 41 years old; half are between 31 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 2,366 people named Demetris (691 women and girls, 1,675 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 | 194 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,070 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 554 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 181 |
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 Demetris born?
The states with the most babies named Demetris are Florida, Georgia and Alabama, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 231 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 190 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Alabama | 131 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 119 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 76 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 68 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 46 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 42 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Demetris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Demetris is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1949 it was given 2.2 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 Demetris 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 49,585 babies since 1880, Demetris is the second most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 203 babies (3.0%), the fifth 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 Demetris
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 Demetris and names like it
- Compare Demetris and DemetriusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDemetris peaked in 1990.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demetris since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Demetris.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Demetris alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.