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Demarco vs Demi

American parents have registered 14,921 Demis since 1880, against 5,562 Demarcos. Demi is still ahead, with 811 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demarco against Demi, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demarco Demi

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 70 years in which either name was published, Demi for 36 years and Demarco for 34 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Demarco Demi
Total US births 5,56214,921
Most in one year 194914
Babies in 2025 19811
Estimated living today 5,40015,000
Median age today 289
Peak year 19982020
Best rank 787th boys339th girls
Rank in 2025 5,045th380th
First recorded 19551964
Girls / boys 0 / 5,56214,869 / 52

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 Demarcos alive today are over 28; half the Demis are over 9. That is 19 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 Demarco Demi
England and Wales 429,067

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: Demarco and Demi.