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Demario vs Demetris

American parents have registered 6,381 Demarios since 1880, against 3,505 Demetrises. Demario is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demario Demetris

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 76 years in which either name was published, Demario for 48 years and Demetris for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Demario Demetris
Total US births 6,3813,505
Most in one year 338108
Babies in 2025 306
Estimated living today 6,1003,300
Median age today 3340
Peak year 19891990
Best rank 523rd boys1,065th boys
Rank in 2025 3,658th10,695th
First recorded 19681949
Girls / boys 17 / 6,364892 / 2,613

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 Demetrises alive today are over 40; half the Demarios are over 33. That is 7 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 Demario Demetris
England and Wales 4316

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: Demario and Demetris.