Demyan
Demyan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #10,981 among boys’ names; 96 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Demyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Demyan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Demyan is “a transliteration of a Russian male given name.”
(surname): Borrowed from Ukrainian Дем’ян (Demʺjan).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Demyan?
#10,981 among boys’ names, 2025
Demyan entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,981 in 2025.
10 babies in 2012, the peak
Demyan peaked in 2012, when 10 boys were given it, #7,674 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,981 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,482 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,983 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,201 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,930 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,096 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,523 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,902 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,674 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,927 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #10,122 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,339 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,489 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,876 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Demyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Demyan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Demyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Demyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 95 Americans named Demyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,065 babies since 1880, Demyan is the third most given (3.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 65 babies (9.2%), the second 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 Demyan
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 Demyan and names like it
- Compare Demyan and DemianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDemyan peaked in 2012.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Demyan.
- Names starting with DMost given first.