Demian
Demian was given to 54 boys in 2025, #2,489 among boys’ names; 2,119 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Demian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Demian?
#2,489 among boys’ names, 2025
Demian rose from #2,931 in 2015 to #2,489 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 20.9 to 31.6 per million.
90 babies in 2007, the peak
Demian peaked in 2007, when 90 boys were given it, #1,684 among boys’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #2,489 | 31.6 |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,353 | 34.8 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,324 | 35.1 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,195 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 41 | #2,986 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 46 | #2,698 | 26.7 |
| 2019 | 47 | #2,702 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,810 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,645 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 47 | #2,635 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,931 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 70 | #2,023 | 36.4 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,008 | 35.9 |
| 2012 | 78 | #1,865 | 41.1 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,132 | 32.6 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,153 | 32.3 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,260 | 29.2 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,068 | 32.8 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,684 | 43.4 |
| 2006 | 54 | #2,322 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,496 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,382 | 23.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,863 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,892 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,075 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,838 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #4,578 | 7.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,217 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,021 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,947 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,177 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,145 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,868 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,840 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,505 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,420 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,188 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,554 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,276 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,048 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,152 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,931 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #2,991 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,404 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 29 | #1,809 | 17.7 |
| 1977 | 46 | #1,341 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,168 | 34.4 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,117 | 36.5 |
| 1974 | 78 | #920 | 49.6 |
| 1973 | 57 | #1,077 | 36.6 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,140 | 31.5 |
| 1971 | 72 | #959 | 40.7 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,019 | 34.4 |
| 1969 | 35 | #1,360 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,049 | 9.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,331 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,076 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Demian has been given almost only to boys: 14 girls in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Demian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demian, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,119 Americans ever recorded as Demian. The median Demian alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 1,563 people named Demian (42 women and girls, 1,521 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,741 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 546 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 101 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 684 |
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 Demian born?
The states with the most babies named Demian are Texas, California and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,507 | 1.5× |
| California | 5 | #2,558 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,340 | 0.4× |
Where Demian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Demian is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 1.8 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 Demian 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,065 babies since 1880, Demian is the most given (69% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 65 babies (83%), 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.
More about Demian and names like it
- Compare Demian and DemonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDemian peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demian since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Demian.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Demian alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.