girls:
11 births since 1975
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1962
#2844 (38th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1962
#5808 (25th percentile)
The name Demitrius is the #5,808 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,961 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 24.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,844 (38.0% percentile) for all time with 1,950 births since 1962. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1975.
Demitrius first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Demitrius is available in 61 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023 (61 years for boys and 2 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 Demitrius has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Demitrius reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #696) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 38 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). Despite a low point around 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Demitrius ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 17.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Demitrius reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #752) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Demitrius".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Demitrius. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.0% confident that Demitrius is pronounced as duh-MEE-tree-uhs, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dih-MEE-tree-uhs, at 28.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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