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Demian vs Demond

American parents have registered 5,882 Demonds since 1880, against 2,119 Demians. But in 2025 it was Demian that was commoner, 54 babies to 24.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demian against Demond, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demian Demond

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 61 years in which either name was published, Demond for 40 years and Demian for 21 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Demian Demond
Total US births 2,1195,882
Most in one year 90423
Babies in 2025 5424
Estimated living today 2,0005,500
Median age today 1841
Peak year 20071974
Best rank 1,681st boys377th boys
Rank in 2025 2,480th4,249th
First recorded 19661963
Girls / boys 14 / 2,10525 / 5,857

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 Demonds alive today are over 41; half the Demians are over 18. 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.

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