girls:
5 births since 2006
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1971
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
17 births since 1971
#7722 (0th percentile)
The name Demea is the #7,722 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2006.
Demea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 2006 for girls). Birth data for Demea is available in 2 out of the 36 years between 1971 and 2006. 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 Demea has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2006, 0.0% of babies named Demea were boys. Interestingly, until around 2000, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1971 to 1999), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2000 to 2006).
For boys, Demea reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #660) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1971.
For girls, Demea reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #966) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demea".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Demea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.2% confident that Demea is pronounced as duh-MEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-mee-uh, at 23.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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