Meaning not yet researched.
Demir: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 87 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,367 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,367 in 2022; #1,829 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Demir in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,829 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #1,367.
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Demir: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 87 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,367 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 137 (2022).
In 2025, 87 US boys were named Demir, making it the 1,829th most common boys’ name of the year, down 117 places from #1,712 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 97 boys named Demir in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,367, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 137. For comparison, it was #2,437 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Demir in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 1,364 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 653 babies named Demir.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 919 US boys were named Demir; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 137. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,633 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Demir ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #898 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Damir (3,449 babies since 1880) and Timur (977 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Demar, Dymir and Demere 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: Demar (1,323), Dymir (156), Demere (145), Demarr (105), Demeir (67), Deymar (34), Demier (33), Dimir (23), Demare (19), Demire (18), Dimar (6), Demirr (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 Demir 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 5 | #898 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,163 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,317 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,325 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,330 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,384 | #1,044 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,397 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #1,951 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,559 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 87 | #1,829 |
| 2024 | — | — | 97 | #1,712 |
| 2023 | — | — | 114 | #1,540 |
| 2022 | — | — | 137 | #1,367 |
| 2021 | — | — | 119 | #1,498 |
| 2020 | — | — | 99 | #1,624 |
| 2019 | — | — | 88 | #1,767 |
| 2018 | — | — | 58 | #2,309 |
| 2017 | — | — | 70 | #2,021 |
| 2016 | — | — | 50 | #2,525 |
| 2015 | — | — | 52 | #2,437 |
| 2014 | — | — | 44 | #2,718 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,371 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,968 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,256 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,328 |
| 2009 | — | — | 26 | #3,945 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,763 |
| 2007 | — | — | 26 | #3,924 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #4,912 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,089 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,071 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #5,960 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,815 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,117 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #6,971 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,321 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #9,997 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,514 |
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).