girls:
29 births since 1985
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
13.5k births since 1956
#1002 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.5k births since 1956
#2255 (71st percentile)
The name Demarcus is the #2,255 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,508 recorded births since 1956. This represents the 70.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,002 (78.2% percentile) for all time with 13,479 births since 1956. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1985.
Demarcus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1956 (1956 for boys and 1985 for girls). Birth data for Demarcus is available in 60 out of the 68 years between 1956 and 2023 (60 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Demarcus has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Demarcus reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 47.7% percentile (ranked #398) with 241 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 241 births per million (ranked 47.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Demarcus ranks #835 for boys (8.4% percentile) with 44 births per million, which is 18.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Demarcus reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #809) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demarcus".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Demarcus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Demarcus is pronounced as duh-MAHR-kuhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-MAHR-kuhs, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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