girls:
158 births since 1959
#5558 (3rd percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1953
#1938 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1953
#4241 (45th percentile)
The name Demetri is the #4,241 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,167 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 45.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,938 (57.7% percentile) for all time with 4,009 births since 1953. For girls, it ranks #5,558 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 158 births since 1959.
Demetri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (1953 for boys and 1959 for girls). Birth data for Demetri is available in 70 out of the 71 years between 1953 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 20 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 Demetri has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Demetri reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 22.0% percentile (ranked #601) with 85 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 85 births per million (ranked 22.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Demetri ranks #837 for boys (8.1% percentile) with 43 births per million, which is 50.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Demetri reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #732) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demetri".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Demetri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.8% confident that Demetri is pronounced as dih-MEE-tree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-MEE-tree, at 21.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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