girls:
22 births since 1965
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
633 births since 1962
#3953 (14th percentile)
overall:
655 births since 1962
#7084 (8th percentile)
The name Demetrus is the #7,084 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 655 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 8.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,953 (13.7% percentile) for all time with 633 births since 1962. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1965.
Demetrus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for boys and 1965 for girls). Birth data for Demetrus is available in 46 out of the 53 years between 1962 and 2014 (46 years for boys and 4 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 Demetrus has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Demetrus reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #623) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2014.
For girls, Demetrus reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #744) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demetrus".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Demetrus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.0% confident that Demetrus is pronounced as duh-MEE-truhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is deh-MEH-truhs, at 18.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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