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Demarcus vs Demetre

American parents have registered 13,647 Demarcuses since 1880, against 691 Demetres. Demarcus is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demarcus against Demetre, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demarcus Demetre

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 63 years in which either name was published, Demarcus for 61 years and Demetre for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Demarcus Demetre
Total US births 13,647691
Most in one year 51157
Babies in 2025 665
Estimated living today 13,000670
Median age today 3030
Peak year 19911992
Best rank 436th boys1,546th boys
Rank in 2025 2,167th12,008th
First recorded 19561963
Girls / boys 29 / 13,61812 / 679

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.

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