Demetri
Demetri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 784th, in 1992.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 520.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1992178 births
- Best rank
- #784in 1992
- Since 1953
- 4,221people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,063 boys have been named Demetri in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1992, with 178 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 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 28%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 158 girls have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1992, its biggest year
Demetri was the 784th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1992 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1992.
Names that rose and fell with Demetri
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Michaelangelopeak 1990
- Dimitripeak 1992
- Alexandrepeak 2003
- Nabeelpeak 1999
- Stefanopeak 1993
- Darienpeak 1994
- Rayvonpeak 2001
- Otonielpeak 1995
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.