Meaning not yet researched.
Demetra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #900 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #900 in 1966; #12,228 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Demetra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,228 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #900.
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Demetra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #900 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 127 (1975).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Demetra, making it the 12,228th most common girls’ name of the year, up 273 places from #12,501 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 7 girls named Demetra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #900, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 127, in 1975. For comparison, it was #11,134 in 2015 and #3,100 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demetra in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 10 babies. In all, 4,217 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,011 babies named Demetra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 98 US girls were named Demetra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Dimitra, Demitra and Dimetra 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dimitra (898), Demitra (643), Dimetra (20), Demethra (12), Demeatra (5).
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 Demetra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,228 | — | — |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,501 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,870 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,468 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,123 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,096 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,918 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,331 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,411 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,104 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,134 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,787 | — | — |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,712 | — | — |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,896 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,898 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,989 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,432 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,845 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,630 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,428 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,873 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,867 | — | — |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,982 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,942 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,056 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,360 | — | — |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,749 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,105 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,516 | — | — |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,763 | — | — |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,893 | — | — |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1987 | 45 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1981 | 64 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1979 | 90 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1977 | 99 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1976 | 111 | #1,094 | 6 | #5,081 |
| 1975 | 127 | #975 | 6 | #4,948 |
| 1974 | 105 | #1,109 | — | — |
| 1973 | 100 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1971 | 90 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1970 | 105 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1969 | 110 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1968 | 121 | #941 | — | — |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1966 | 125 | #900 | — | — |
| 1965 | 89 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1964 | 86 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1963 | 77 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1961 | 57 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1956 | 44 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1953 | 32 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,949 | — | — |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,100 | — | — |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1948 | 31 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,938 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,060 | — | — |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,953 | — | — |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,298 | — | — |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,287 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,296 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,878 | — | — |
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).