girls:
1.7k births since 1946
#4041 (29th percentile)
boys:
35.7k births since 1912
#602 (87th percentile)
overall:
37.4k births since 1912
#1291 (83rd percentile)
The name Demetrius is the #1,291 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 37,420 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 83.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #602 (86.9% percentile) for all time with 35,693 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #4,041 (29.3% percentile) for all time with 1,727 births since 1946.
Demetrius first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1946 for girls). Birth data for Demetrius is available in 95 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (95 years for boys and 50 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 Demetrius has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Demetrius reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 67.1% percentile (ranked #251) with 496 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 496 births per million (ranked 67.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1995, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Demetrius ranks #658 for boys (27.8% percentile) with 142 births per million, which is 28.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Demetrius reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 10.2% percentile (ranked #676) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 53 births per million (ranked 10.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demetrius".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Demetrius. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Demetrius is pronounced as duh-MEE-tree-uhs, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-MEE-tree-uhs, at 40.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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