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Demarcus vs Demetrick

American parents have registered 13,647 Demarcuses since 1880, against 706 Demetricks. Demarcus is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demarcus against Demetrick, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demarcus Demetrick

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Demarcus for 61 years and Demetrick for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Demarcus Demetrick
Total US births 13,647706
Most in one year 51132
Babies in 2025 66under 5
Estimated living today 13,000670
Median age today 3038
Peak year 19911978
Best rank 436th boys1,688th boys
Rank in 2025 2,167thunranked
First recorded 19561967
Girls / boys 29 / 13,6180 / 706

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Demetricks alive today are over 38; half the Demarcuses are over 30. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Demarcus and Demetrick.