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Demond vs Demontez

American parents have registered 5,882 Demonds since 1880, against 195 Demontezes. Demond is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demond Demontez

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

Demond has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Demond had 15 and Demontez had 5.

Side by side

  Demond Demontez
Total US births 5,882195
Most in one year 42317
Babies in 2025 24under 5
Estimated living today 5,500190
Median age today 4124
Peak year 19741993
Best rank 377th boys3,661st boys
Rank in 2025 4,249thunranked
First recorded 19631991
Girls / boys 25 / 5,8570 / 195

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 Demontezes are over 24. That is 17 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: Demond and Demontez.