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Demani vs Demetria

American parents have registered 11,101 Demetrias since 1880, against 780 Demanis. But in 2025 it was Demani that was commoner, 35 babies to 24.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demani against Demetria, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demani Demetria

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 107 years in which either name was published, Demetria for 100 years and Demani for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Demani Demetria
Total US births 78011,101
Most in one year 56382
Babies in 2025 3524
Estimated living today 77010,000
Median age today 1144
Peak year 20121974
Best rank 2,678th boys478th girls
Rank in 2025 4,050th5,238th
First recorded 19951914
Girls / boys 183 / 59710,960 / 141

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 Demetrias alive today are over 44; half the Demanis are over 11. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Demani Demetria
England and Wales 425

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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