girls:
1k births since 1914
#4698 (18th percentile)
boys:
286 births since 1978
#4300 (6th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1914
#6438 (17th percentile)
The name Demaris is the #6,438 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,304 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 16.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,698 (17.8% percentile) for all time with 1,018 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,300 (6.2% percentile) for all time with 286 births since 1978.
Demaris first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1978 for boys). Birth data for Demaris is available in 100 out of the 108 years between 1914 and 2021 (94 years for girls and 32 years for boys). 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 Demaris has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2021, 0.0% of babies named Demaris were girls.
For girls, Demaris reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #670) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 17 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
For boys, Demaris reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #744) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demaris".
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Our model has identified 19 different pronunciations for the name Demaris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.5% confident that Demaris is pronounced as DEH-mer-ihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-MEH-rihs, at 19.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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