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Demetria vs Demitra

American parents have registered 11,101 Demetrias since 1880, against 643 Demitras. Demetria is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demetria Demitra

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 2024, when Demetria had 24 and Demitra had 7.

Side by side

  Demetria Demitra
Total US births 11,101643
Most in one year 38226
Babies in 2025 246
Estimated living today 10,000620
Median age today 4434
Peak year 19741976
Best rank 478th girls2,865th girls
Rank in 2025 5,238th13,208th
First recorded 19141958
Girls / boys 10,960 / 141643 / 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 Demetrias alive today are over 44; half the Demitras are over 34. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Demetria Demitra
England and Wales 2513

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Demetria and Demitra.