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Demi vs Demonta

American parents have registered 14,921 Demis since 1880, against 755 Demontas. Demi is still ahead, with 811 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demi Demonta

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 51 years in which either name was published, Demi for 45 years and Demonta for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Demi Demonta
Total US births 14,921755
Most in one year 91443
Babies in 2025 81112
Estimated living today 15,000740
Median age today 926
Peak year 20201997
Best rank 339th girls2,060th boys
Rank in 2025 380th6,803rd
First recorded 19641976
Girls / boys 14,869 / 520 / 755

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 Demontas alive today are over 26; half the Demis are over 9. That is 17 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: Demi and Demonta.