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Demario vs Demya

American parents have registered 6,381 Demarios since 1880, against 773 Demyas. Demario is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demario Demya

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

Demario has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1968 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2009, when Demario had 96 and Demya had 48.

Side by side

  Demario Demya
Total US births 6,381773
Most in one year 33859
Babies in 2025 306
Estimated living today 6,100770
Median age today 3317
Peak year 19892008
Best rank 523rd boys2,957th girls
Rank in 2025 3,658th13,208th
First recorded 19681998
Girls / boys 17 / 6,364773 / 0

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 Demarios alive today are over 33; half the Demyas are over 17. That is 16 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: Demario and Demya.