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Demarcus vs Demont

American parents have registered 13,647 Demarcuses since 1880, against 534 Demonts. Demarcus is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demarcus Demont

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

Demarcus has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1964, when Demarcus had 5 and Demont had 5.

Side by side

  Demarcus Demont
Total US births 13,647534
Most in one year 51128
Babies in 2025 66under 5
Estimated living today 13,000500
Median age today 3041
Peak year 19911974
Best rank 436th boys1,692nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,167thunranked
First recorded 19561964
Girls / boys 29 / 13,6180 / 534

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 Demonts alive today are over 41; half the Demarcuses are over 30. That is 11 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: Demarcus and Demont.