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Demi vs Demont

American parents have registered 14,921 Demis since 1880, against 534 Demonts. Demi is still ahead, with 811 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demi Demont

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 58 years in which either name was published, Demi for 43 years and Demont for 15 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Demi Demont
Total US births 14,921534
Most in one year 91428
Babies in 2025 811under 5
Estimated living today 15,000500
Median age today 941
Peak year 20201974
Best rank 339th girls1,692nd boys
Rank in 2025 380thunranked
First recorded 19641964
Girls / boys 14,869 / 520 / 534

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 Demonts alive today are over 41; half the Demis are over 9. That is 32 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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