Meaning not yet researched.
Demetrios: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #925 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #925 in 1969; #5,669 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Demetrios in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,669 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #925.
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Demetrios: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #925 in 1969 · most boys in one year: 77 (1974).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Demetrios, making it the 5,669th most common boys’ name of the year, up 52 places from #5,721 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 16 boys named Demetrios in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #925, reached in 1969. The most boys given the name in a single year was 77, in 1974. For comparison, it was #3,452 in 2015 and #2,620 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demetrios in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 2,770 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 620 babies named Demetrios.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 173 US boys were named Demetrios; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Demetrius (37,791 babies since 1880), Dimitri (9,693 babies since 1880), Demetris (3,505 babies since 1880) and Demetrio (3,064 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Demetrios 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,669 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,721 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #6,995 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,686 |
| 2021 | — | — | 18 | #5,168 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,514 |
| 2019 | — | — | 25 | #4,141 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,374 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,588 |
| 2016 | — | — | 21 | #4,656 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,452 |
| 2014 | — | — | 22 | #4,425 |
| 2013 | — | — | 32 | #3,353 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,922 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,811 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,974 |
| 2009 | — | — | 31 | #3,493 |
| 2008 | — | — | 35 | #3,239 |
| 2007 | — | — | 40 | #2,939 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,795 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,440 |
| 2004 | — | — | 52 | #2,214 |
| 2003 | — | — | 38 | #2,628 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,952 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,578 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,949 |
| 1999 | — | — | 43 | #2,175 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,569 |
| 1997 | — | — | 36 | #2,321 |
| 1996 | — | — | 39 | #2,154 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,410 |
| 1994 | — | — | 35 | #2,265 |
| 1993 | — | — | 32 | #2,361 |
| 1992 | — | — | 50 | #1,702 |
| 1991 | — | — | 36 | #2,057 |
| 1990 | — | — | 54 | #1,548 |
| 1989 | — | — | 40 | #1,863 |
| 1988 | — | — | 27 | #2,264 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,904 |
| 1986 | — | — | 41 | #1,599 |
| 1985 | — | — | 34 | #1,768 |
| 1984 | — | — | 40 | #1,536 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,603 |
| 1982 | — | — | 46 | #1,397 |
| 1981 | — | — | 50 | #1,313 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,156 |
| 1979 | — | — | 64 | #1,119 |
| 1978 | — | — | 58 | #1,170 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,321 |
| 1976 | — | — | 71 | #993 |
| 1975 | — | — | 63 | #1,045 |
| 1974 | — | — | 77 | #927 |
| 1973 | — | — | 64 | #1,006 |
| 1972 | — | — | 71 | #961 |
| 1971 | — | — | 45 | #1,241 |
| 1970 | — | — | 60 | #1,056 |
| 1969 | — | — | 68 | #925 |
| 1968 | — | — | 46 | #1,101 |
| 1967 | — | — | 37 | #1,234 |
| 1966 | — | — | 40 | #1,182 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,338 |
| 1964 | — | — | 27 | #1,516 |
| 1963 | — | — | 30 | #1,433 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,551 |
| 1961 | — | — | 24 | #1,652 |
| 1960 | — | — | 18 | #1,923 |
| 1959 | — | — | 21 | #1,767 |
| 1958 | — | — | 15 | #2,114 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,689 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,671 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,270 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #2,967 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,174 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,620 |
| 1949 | — | — | 9 | #2,659 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #3,800 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,155 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,076 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,296 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,650 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,666 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,354 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,903 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,900 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,676 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,143 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,465 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,363 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #3,932 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,309 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,332 |
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).