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Demetria vs Demonte

American parents have registered 11,101 Demetrias since 1880, against 2,508 Demontes. Demetria is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demetria Demonte

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 104 years and Demonte for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Demetria Demonte
Total US births 11,1012,508
Most in one year 382132
Babies in 2025 2419
Estimated living today 10,0002,400
Median age today 4426
Peak year 19741994
Best rank 478th girls958th boys
Rank in 2025 5,238th5,045th
First recorded 19141973
Girls / boys 10,960 / 1410 / 2,508

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 Demontes are over 26. That is 18 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 Demonte.