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Demetria vs Demitri

American parents have registered 11,101 Demetrias since 1880, against 2,160 Demitris. But in 2025 it was Demitri that was commoner, 33 babies to 24.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demetria Demitri

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 107 years in which either name was published, Demetria for 94 years and Demitri for 13 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Demetria Demitri
Total US births 11,1012,160
Most in one year 38278
Babies in 2025 2433
Estimated living today 10,0002,100
Median age today 4421
Peak year 19742001
Best rank 478th girls1,543rd boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th3,450th
First recorded 19141964
Girls / boys 10,960 / 14123 / 2,137

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 Demitris are over 21. That is 23 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Demetria Demitri
England and Wales 2536

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 Demitri.