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Demarius vs Demond

American parents have registered 5,882 Demonds since 1880, against 2,024 Demariuses. Demond is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demarius against Demond, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demarius Demond

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 58 years in which either name was published, Demond for 49 years and Demarius for 9 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Demarius Demond
Total US births 2,0245,882
Most in one year 102423
Babies in 2025 1524
Estimated living today 2,0005,500
Median age today 2241
Peak year 20061974
Best rank 1,492nd boys377th boys
Rank in 2025 5,861st4,249th
First recorded 19781963
Girls / boys 0 / 2,02425 / 5,857

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 Demonds alive today are over 41; half the Demariuses are over 22. That is 19 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: Demarius and Demond.