Demetrious
Demetrious is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199159 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1947
- 1,815people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,757 boys have been named Demetrious in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 59 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 23%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 58 girls have also been given it, 3.2% of the total.
By decade
In 1991, its biggest year
Demetrious was outside the top 1,000 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 Demetrious
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Demetriuspeak 1991
- Tyronpeak 1990
- Deonpeak 1994
- Shaynepeak 1990
- Laronpeak 1990
- Marquettepeak 1992
- Jaimepeak 1980
- Derronpeak 1990
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.