In 2025, 24 US girls were named Demetria, making it the 5,285th most common girls’ name of the year, up 56 places from #5,341 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 24 girls named Demetria in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #479, reached in 1974. That year also had the most girls given the name: 371. For comparison, it was #3,189 in 2015 and #1,843 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demetria in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 8 babies. In all, 11,101 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 3,335 babies named Demetria.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 305 US girls were named Demetria; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Demetri (4,269 babies since 1880), Demetrio (3,064 babies since 1880) and Demitri (2,160 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Demitria, Demetrie and Dimitria are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.