Demetrus
Demetrus was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 661 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demetrus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Demetrus?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,256, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1974, the peak
Demetrus peaked in 1974, when 28 babies were given it (21 boys, #2,063 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,256 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,054 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,328 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,188 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,034 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,412 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,307 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,952 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,650 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,562 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 6 | #9,373 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,744 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,009 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,290 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,431 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,861 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,354 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,776 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,026 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,848 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,816 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,489 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | #3,242 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,409 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,164 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,739 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,507 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,106 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,002 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,698 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,234 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 23 | #2,174 | 13.4 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,223 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,387 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,064 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,961 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,063 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,743 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,348 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,192 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,935 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,676 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,351 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,097 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,619 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,184 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,731 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demetrus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 661 Americans recorded as Demetrus, 3% are girls and 97% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Demetrus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demetrus, and how old are they?
An estimated 617 Americans named Demetrus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 31 and 50. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 428 people named Demetrus (61 women and girls, 367 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 623 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 49,585 babies since 1880, Demetrus is the seventh most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 203 babies recorded by SSA was a Demetrus (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Demetrus
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 Demetrus and names like it
- Compare Demetrus and DemetriusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDemetrus peaked in 1974.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demetrus since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Demetrus.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Demetrus alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.