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Dema vs Demond

American parents have registered 5,882 Demonds since 1880, against 849 Demas. Demond is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dema against Demond, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dema Demond

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 122 years in which either name was published, Dema for 64 years and Demond for 58 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Dema Demond
Total US births 8495,882
Most in one year 24423
Babies in 2025 524
Estimated living today 3305,500
Median age today 2541
Peak year 19191974
Best rank 1,649th girls377th boys
Rank in 2025 14,942nd4,249th
First recorded 18881963
Girls / boys 849 / 025 / 5,857

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Demonds alive today are over 41; half the Demas are over 25. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dema and Demond.