Demetrius
Demetrius is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 213 births. Its best rank was 259th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2130.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19911,052 births
- Best rank
- #259in 1991
- Since 1912
- 37,626people given the name
The story in the numbers
35,899 boys have been named Demetrius in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 1,052 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 23%. It has spent 70 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,727 girls have also been given it, 4.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Demetrius | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | |
| 1920s | 42 | |
| 1930s | 19 | |
| 1940s | 80 | |
| 1950s | 507 | |
| 1960s | 2,552 | |
| 1970s | 6,299 | |
| 1980s | 7,187 | |
| 1990s | 8,390 | |
| 2000s | 5,755 | |
| 2010s | 3,777 | |
| 2020s | 1,255 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Demetrius was the 259th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1991 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Demetrius
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Demetriouspeak 1991
- Tyronpeak 1990
- Laronpeak 1990
- Djuanpeak 1990
- Ryonpeak 1989
- Naderpeak 1990
- Deonpeak 1994
- Derickpeak 1989
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.