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Demarko vs Demond

American parents have registered 5,882 Demonds since 1880, against 696 Demarkos. Demond is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demarko 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

Demond has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Demarko had 15 and Demond had 32.

Side by side

  Demarko Demond
Total US births 6965,882
Most in one year 33423
Babies in 2025 624
Estimated living today 6705,500
Median age today 3141
Peak year 19931974
Best rank 2,295th boys377th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th4,249th
First recorded 19721963
Girls / boys 0 / 69625 / 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 Demarkos are over 31. That is 10 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: Demarko and Demond.