Demir
Demir was given to 87 boys in 2025, #1,829 among boys’ names; 1,364 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Demir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Demir mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Demir is “a male given name from Proto-Turkic” Its etymology gives the sense “iron” (demir).
From demir (“iron”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Demir?
#1,829 among boys’ names, 2025
Demir rose from #2,436 in 2015 to #1,829 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.1 to 50.9 per million.
137 babies in 2022, the peak
Demir peaked in 2022, when 137 boys were given it, #1,367 among boys’ names. The 87 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87 | #1,829 | 50.9 |
| 2024 | 97 | #1,712 | 56.3 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,540 | 66.6 |
| 2022 | 137 | #1,367 | 78.5 |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,498 | 68.0 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,624 | 57.4 |
| 2019 | 88 | #1,767 | 49.0 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,308 | 31.9 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,021 | 37.8 |
| 2016 | 50 | #2,525 | 26.3 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #2,436 | 27.1 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,716 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,370 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,966 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,255 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,327 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,943 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,759 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,922 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,908 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,084 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,066 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,953 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,808 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,110 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,963 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,314 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,988 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,507 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Demir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Demir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demir, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,364 Americans ever recorded as Demir. The median Demir alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 696 people named Demir (10 women and girls, 686 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 730 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 287 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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 Demir born?
The states with the most babies named Demir are Florida, New York and Texas, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,384 | 1.7× |
| New York | 8 | #1,330 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 8 | #1,951 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,163 | 1.4× |
| California | 5 | #2,559 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,397 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,325 | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 5 | #898 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,317 | 0.1× |
Where Demir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Demir is most over-represented in Florida: since 1991 it was given 1.7 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 Demir 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,859 babies since 1880, Demir is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 87 of their 97 babies (90%), 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 Demir
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 Demir and names like it
- Compare Demir and DemarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDemir peaked in 2022.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demir since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Demir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Demir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.