girls:
10.9k births since 1914
#1501 (74th percentile)
boys:
141 births since 1967
#4445 (3rd percentile)
overall:
11.1k births since 1914
#2503 (68th percentile)
The name Demetria is the #2,503 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,052 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 67.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,501 (73.7% percentile) for all time with 10,911 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,445 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 141 births since 1967.
Demetria first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1967 for boys). Birth data for Demetria is available in 105 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (105 years for girls and 18 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 Demetria has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Demetria reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 42.5% percentile (ranked #429) with 237 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 238 births per million (ranked 41.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Demetria ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Demetria reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #667) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demetria".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Demetria. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.0% confident that Demetria is pronounced as duh-MEE-tree-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-MEE-tree-uh, at 24.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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