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Demetria vs Demetric

American parents have registered 11,101 Demetrias since 1880, against 2,546 Demetrics. Demetria is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demetria Demetric

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

Demetria has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Demetria had 27 and Demetric had 20.

Side by side

  Demetria Demetric
Total US births 11,1012,546
Most in one year 382101
Babies in 2025 249
Estimated living today 10,0002,400
Median age today 4441
Peak year 19741979
Best rank 478th girls1,005th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th8,243rd
First recorded 19141958
Girls / boys 10,960 / 141411 / 2,135

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 Demetrias alive today are over 44; half the Demetrics are over 41. That is 3 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: Demetria and Demetric.