Meaning not yet researched.
Demi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 804 in 2025. Its best rank was #339 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #339 in 2020; #381 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Demi in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#381 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #339.
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Demi: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 804 girls in 2025. Peak: #339 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 914 (2020).
In 2025, 804 US girls were named Demi, making it the 381st most common girls’ name of the year, up 71 places from #452 in 2024. That is 110 more than the 694 girls named Demi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #339, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 914. For comparison, it was #601 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demi in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 14,921 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,083 babies named Demi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,592 US girls were named Demi; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 914. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,999 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Demi ranked highest in Louisiana in 2025, at #49 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Demian (2,119 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Demya, Demia and Dyami are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Demya (773), Demia (671), Dyami (382), Demiya (331), Demiah (271), Demii (120), Demmi (69), Demy (67), Demie (61), Demyia (44), Deymi (38), Demea (17), and more.
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 Demi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 61 | #49 | #89 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #169 | #596 |
| Illinois | 46 | #217 | #612 |
| Missouri | 23 | #268 | #427 |
| Utah | 16 | #279 | #515 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #282 | #403 |
| Georgia | 34 | #306 | #566 |
| Arkansas | 10 | #310 | — |
| Maryland | 17 | #312 | #340 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #328 | #517 |
| Florida | 54 | #335 | #575 |
| New Jersey | 24 | #342 | #976 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #352 | — |
| Michigan | 25 | #355 | #792 |
| Idaho | 6 | #364 | — |
| Ohio | 30 | #374 | #549 |
| Alabama | 12 | #397 | — |
| California | 83 | #398 | #714 |
| Texas | 82 | #409 | #706 |
| Nevada | 6 | #449 | #412 |
| Arizona | 15 | #451 | #725 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #459 | #515 |
| Kansas | 7 | #462 | — |
| North Carolina | 23 | #477 | #839 |
| Tennessee | 16 | #484 | #970 |
| New York | 31 | #535 | #648 |
| Virginia | 14 | #547 | #792 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #563 | #592 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #578 | — |
| Indiana | 11 | #585 | #542 |
| Washington | 11 | #597 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #611 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #942 | #582 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 804 | #381 | 7 | #9,942 |
| 2024 | 694 | #452 | 5 | #12,767 |
| 2023 | 778 | #394 | 12 | #6,996 |
| 2022 | 781 | #402 | 8 | #9,189 |
| 2021 | 844 | #366 | 6 | #11,099 |
| 2020 | 914 | #339 | — | — |
| 2019 | 808 | #387 | 8 | #9,084 |
| 2018 | 778 | #397 | — | — |
| 2017 | 641 | #487 | 6 | #11,099 |
| 2016 | 550 | #565 | — | — |
| 2015 | 490 | #601 | — | — |
| 2014 | 452 | #634 | — | — |
| 2013 | 373 | #734 | — | — |
| 2012 | 337 | #794 | — | — |
| 2011 | 324 | #820 | — | — |
| 2010 | 316 | #848 | — | — |
| 2009 | 309 | #888 | — | — |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 2007 | 154 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 2006 | 157 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 2005 | 158 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 2004 | 173 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 2003 | 180 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 2001 | 165 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 2000 | 183 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1999 | 172 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1998 | 253 | #842 | — | — |
| 1997 | 289 | #737 | — | — |
| 1996 | 347 | #646 | — | — |
| 1995 | 364 | #612 | — | — |
| 1994 | 313 | #677 | — | — |
| 1993 | 362 | #624 | — | — |
| 1992 | 355 | #634 | — | — |
| 1991 | 333 | #656 | — | — |
| 1990 | 168 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,856 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,077 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,813 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,246 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,475 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,719 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,741 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,990 | — | — |
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).