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Demetria vs Demetrick

American parents have registered 11,101 Demetrias since 1880, against 706 Demetricks. Demetria is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demetria Demetrick

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 2010, when Demetria had 68 and Demetrick had 16.

Side by side

  Demetria Demetrick
Total US births 11,101706
Most in one year 38232
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 10,000670
Median age today 4438
Peak year 19741978
Best rank 478th girls1,688th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238thunranked
First recorded 19141967
Girls / boys 10,960 / 1410 / 706

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 Demetricks are over 38. That is 6 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 Demetrick.