Meaning not yet researched.
Demarcus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #429 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #429 in 1988; #2,168 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Demarcus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,168 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #429.
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Demarcus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 boys in 2025. Peak: #429 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 511 (1991).
In 2025, 66 US boys were named Demarcus, making it the 2,168th most common boys’ name of the year, down 11 places from #2,157 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 68 boys named Demarcus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #429, reached in 1988. The most boys given the name in a single year was 511, in 1991. For comparison, it was #1,082 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demarcus in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 13,647 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,252 babies named Demarcus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,168 US boys were named Demarcus; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 171. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,880 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Demarcus ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #548 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Demarkus (1,237 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Demarquis, Demarques and Demarkis are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Demarquis (454), Demarques (254), Demarkis (117), Demarqus (63), Demarcos (58), Dimarcus (7), Demarkas (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Demarcus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #548 | #295 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #730 | #529 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #807 | #591 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,899 | #987 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,950 | #862 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 66 | #2,168 |
| 2024 | — | — | 68 | #2,157 |
| 2023 | — | — | 83 | #1,899 |
| 2022 | — | — | 89 | #1,815 |
| 2021 | — | — | 93 | #1,740 |
| 2020 | — | — | 139 | #1,298 |
| 2019 | — | — | 130 | #1,373 |
| 2018 | — | — | 164 | #1,169 |
| 2017 | — | — | 171 | #1,123 |
| 2016 | — | — | 165 | #1,161 |
| 2015 | — | — | 181 | #1,082 |
| 2014 | — | — | 205 | #1,006 |
| 2013 | — | — | 227 | #914 |
| 2012 | — | — | 217 | #938 |
| 2011 | — | — | 222 | #910 |
| 2010 | — | — | 261 | #820 |
| 2009 | — | — | 267 | #823 |
| 2008 | — | — | 326 | #714 |
| 2007 | — | — | 288 | #764 |
| 2006 | — | — | 291 | #734 |
| 2005 | — | — | 263 | #755 |
| 2004 | — | — | 234 | #777 |
| 2003 | — | — | 239 | #750 |
| 2002 | — | — | 254 | #704 |
| 2001 | — | — | 253 | #705 |
| 2000 | — | — | 302 | #622 |
| 1999 | — | — | 302 | #607 |
| 1998 | — | — | 338 | #580 |
| 1997 | — | — | 366 | #541 |
| 1996 | — | — | 404 | #510 |
| 1995 | — | — | 428 | #497 |
| 1994 | — | — | 489 | #454 |
| 1993 | — | — | 456 | #464 |
| 1992 | — | — | 460 | #470 |
| 1991 | — | — | 511 | #436 |
| 1990 | — | — | 498 | #443 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,889 | 456 | #441 |
| 1988 | — | — | 438 | #429 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,013 | 369 | #460 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,722 | 374 | #450 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,567 | 354 | #456 |
| 1984 | — | — | 264 | #527 |
| 1983 | — | — | 276 | #507 |
| 1982 | — | — | 251 | #544 |
| 1981 | — | — | 211 | #586 |
| 1980 | — | — | 224 | #576 |
| 1979 | — | — | 177 | #640 |
| 1978 | — | — | 159 | #664 |
| 1977 | — | — | 143 | #710 |
| 1976 | — | — | 109 | #797 |
| 1975 | — | — | 92 | #868 |
| 1974 | — | — | 75 | #942 |
| 1973 | — | — | 57 | #1,076 |
| 1972 | — | — | 42 | #1,293 |
| 1971 | — | — | 37 | #1,401 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,140 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,909 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,778 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,331 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,076 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,183 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,080 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).