girls:
58 births since 1962
#5658 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 1947
#2978 (35th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1947
#5957 (23rd percentile)
The name Demetrious is the #5,957 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,797 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 23.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,978 (35.0% percentile) for all time with 1,739 births since 1947. For girls, it ranks #5,658 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 58 births since 1962.
Demetrious first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for boys and 1962 for girls). Birth data for Demetrious is available in 70 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023 (70 years for boys and 9 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 Demetrious has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Demetrious reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #706) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 28 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Despite a low point around 2018, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Demetrious ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 29.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Demetrious reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #764) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% 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 "Demetrious".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Demetrious. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.4% confident that Demetrious is pronounced as duh-MEE-tree-uhs, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-MEE-tree-uhs, at 15.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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