Demon
Demon was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,486 among boys’ names; 850 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Demon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Demon is “a male given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the sense “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state” (δῆμος).
From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).
/ˈdiː.mən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Demon?
#12,486 among boys’ names, 2025
Demon entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #12,486 in 2025.
35 babies in 1974, the peak
Demon peaked in 1974, when 35 boys were given it, #1,477 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,486 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,258 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,583 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,813 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,098 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,971 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,980 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,877 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,459 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,826 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | #6,345 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,555 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,239 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,308 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,332 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,651 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,637 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,325 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,870 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,210 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,022 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,863 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,732 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,627 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,271 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,608 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,924 | 10.9 |
| 1990 | 23 | #2,798 | 11.2 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,920 | 10.5 |
| 1988 | 18 | #2,988 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,375 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,934 | 6.0 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,443 | 11.4 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,180 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,107 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 33 | #1,738 | 18.2 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,099 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 28 | #1,973 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,004 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,622 | 20.7 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,870 | 16.4 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,654 | 20.4 |
| 1975 | 35 | #1,514 | 22.4 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,477 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,705 | 17.3 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,031 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,087 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,876 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,909 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Demon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Demon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demon, and how old are they?
An estimated 802 Americans named Demon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 27 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 532 people named Demon (8 women and girls, 524 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 794 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,065 babies since 1880, Demon is the second most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 65 babies (7.7%), 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 Demon
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 Demon and names like it
- Compare Demon and DemianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDemon peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Demon since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Demon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Demon.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Demon alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.