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Demarcus vs Demonte

American parents have registered 13,647 Demarcuses since 1880, against 2,508 Demontes. Demarcus is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demarcus Demonte

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 2000, when Demarcus had 302 and Demonte had 112.

Side by side

  Demarcus Demonte
Total US births 13,6472,508
Most in one year 511132
Babies in 2025 6619
Estimated living today 13,0002,400
Median age today 3026
Peak year 19911994
Best rank 436th boys958th boys
Rank in 2025 2,167th5,045th
First recorded 19561973
Girls / boys 29 / 13,6180 / 2,508

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 Demarcuses alive today are over 30; half the Demontes are over 26. That is 4 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.

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