Meaning not yet researched.
Demetris: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,067 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,067 in 1990; #10,982 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Demetris in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,982 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #1,067.
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Demetris: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,067 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 99 (1990).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Demetris, making it the 10,982nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 278 places from #11,260 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 boys named Demetris in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,067, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #4,927 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Demetris in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,967, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 45. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demetris in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 6 babies. In all, 3,505 US babies have been given the name, 25% of them girls and 75% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 865 babies named Demetris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 122 US boys were named Demetris; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Demetrius (37,791 babies since 1880), Demetrios (2,770 babies since 1880) and Demitrius (1,977 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dimitris 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: Dimitris (517).
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 Demetris 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 | — | — | 6 | #10,982 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #11,260 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,415 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,223 |
| 2021 | — | — | 15 | #5,838 |
| 2020 | — | — | 15 | #5,776 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,506 |
| 2018 | — | — | 12 | #6,800 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,589 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,611 |
| 2015 | — | — | 19 | #4,927 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,813 |
| 2013 | — | — | 14 | #5,992 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,040 |
| 2011 | — | — | 29 | #3,623 |
| 2010 | — | — | 29 | #3,649 |
| 2009 | — | — | 24 | #4,190 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,853 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,458 |
| 2006 | — | — | 34 | #3,170 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,912 |
| 2004 | — | — | 38 | #2,754 |
| 2003 | — | — | 30 | #3,135 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,136 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,497 |
| 2000 | — | — | 49 | #2,062 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,106 | 36 | #2,477 |
| 1998 | — | — | 48 | #1,995 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,470 |
| 1996 | — | — | 60 | #1,620 |
| 1995 | — | — | 51 | #1,741 |
| 1994 | — | — | 63 | #1,499 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,916 | 84 | #1,239 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,238 | 82 | #1,248 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,333 | 94 | #1,133 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,666 | 99 | #1,067 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,906 | 82 | #1,175 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,985 | 65 | #1,273 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,164 | 62 | #1,238 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,574 | 75 | #1,078 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,882 | 52 | #1,334 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,438 | 55 | #1,241 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,357 | 59 | #1,181 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,547 | 70 | #1,089 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,795 | 69 | #1,096 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,532 | 72 | #1,067 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,362 | 64 | #1,120 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,317 | 59 | #1,154 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,193 | 59 | #1,128 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,448 | 56 | #1,146 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,967 | 61 | #1,070 |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,106 | 40 | #1,356 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,184 | 46 | #1,225 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,082 | 47 | #1,200 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,346 | 31 | #1,567 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,208 | 32 | #1,501 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,657 | 25 | #1,652 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,315 | 29 | #1,460 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,387 | 15 | #2,050 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,366 | 19 | #1,766 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,421 | 16 | #2,004 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,364 | 13 | #2,339 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,722 | 7 | #3,394 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,949 | 14 | #2,211 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,773 | 19 | #1,895 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,719 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,568 | 7 | #3,346 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,992 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,173 | 8 | #3,021 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,588 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,939 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,868 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,773 | — | — |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,401 |
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).