Meaning not yet researched.
Demian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #920 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #920 in 1974; #2,489 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Demian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,489 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #920.
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Demian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #920 in 1974 · most boys in one year: 90 (2007).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Demian, making it the 2,489th most common boys’ name of the year, down 136 places from #2,353 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 60 boys named Demian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #920, reached in 1974. The most boys given the name in a single year was 90, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,932 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demian in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 2,119 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 564 babies named Demian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 511 US boys were named Demian; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Demian ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,340 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Demi (14,921 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Demon, Demyan and Dymin 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: Demon (850), Demyan (96), Dymin (73), Dyman (16), Demien (11), Deymian (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 Demian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,340 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,507 | #1,800 |
| California | 5 | #2,558 | #1,561 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 54 | #2,489 |
| 2024 | — | — | 60 | #2,353 |
| 2023 | — | — | 60 | #2,325 |
| 2022 | — | — | 66 | #2,196 |
| 2021 | — | — | 41 | #2,987 |
| 2020 | — | — | 46 | #2,699 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,703 |
| 2018 | — | — | 43 | #2,811 |
| 2017 | — | — | 47 | #2,646 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,636 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,932 |
| 2014 | — | — | 70 | #2,024 |
| 2013 | — | — | 68 | #2,009 |
| 2012 | — | — | 78 | #1,866 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,133 |
| 2010 | — | — | 62 | #2,154 |
| 2009 | — | — | 58 | #2,261 |
| 2008 | — | — | 67 | #2,069 |
| 2007 | — | — | 90 | #1,684 |
| 2006 | — | — | 54 | #2,323 |
| 2005 | — | — | 45 | #2,500 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,386 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,867 |
| 2002 | — | — | 32 | #2,896 |
| 2001 | — | — | 29 | #3,080 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,845 |
| 1999 | — | — | 15 | #4,584 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,223 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,027 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #4,954 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,184 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,151 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,874 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,847 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,512 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,429 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,195 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,561 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,281 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,051 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,153 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,933 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #2,992 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,405 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,809 |
| 1977 | — | — | 46 | #1,341 |
| 1976 | — | — | 54 | #1,168 |
| 1975 | — | — | 57 | #1,117 |
| 1974 | — | — | 78 | #920 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,828 | 57 | #1,077 |
| 1972 | — | — | 51 | #1,140 |
| 1971 | — | — | 72 | #959 |
| 1970 | — | — | 64 | #1,019 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,104 | 35 | #1,360 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,050 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,332 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #4,077 |
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).