girls:
892 births since 1951
#4824 (16th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1949
#2476 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1949
#4629 (40th percentile)
The name Demetris is the #4,629 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,492 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 40.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,476 (46.0% percentile) for all time with 2,600 births since 1949. For girls, it ranks #4,824 (15.6% percentile) for all time with 892 births since 1951.
Demetris first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for boys and 1951 for girls). Birth data for Demetris is available in 74 out of the 75 years between 1949 and 2023 (67 years for boys and 43 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 Demetris has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Demetris were boys.
For boys, Demetris reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 12.2% percentile (ranked #675) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 46 births per million (ranked 12.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1993, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Demetris ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Demetris reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #713) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demetris".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Demetris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Demetris is pronounced as duh-MEE-trihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-MEH-trihs, at 27.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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