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Demi vs Demitrius

American parents have registered 14,921 Demis since 1880, against 1,977 Demitriuses. Demi is still ahead, with 811 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demi against Demitrius, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demi Demitrius

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 63 years in which either name was published, Demi for 39 years and Demitrius for 24 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Demi Demitrius
Total US births 14,9211,977
Most in one year 91479
Babies in 2025 8118
Estimated living today 15,0001,900
Median age today 928
Peak year 20201992
Best rank 339th girls1,274th boys
Rank in 2025 380th8,910th
First recorded 19641962
Girls / boys 14,869 / 5211 / 1,966

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 Demitriuses alive today are over 28; half the Demis are over 9. That is 19 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 Demi Demitrius
England and Wales 9,0673

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: Demi and Demitrius.