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Demarcus vs Demond

American parents have registered 13,647 Demarcuses since 1880, against 5,882 Demonds. Demarcus is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Demarcus Demond

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 63 years in which either name was published, Demarcus for 54 years and Demond for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Demarcus Demond
Total US births 13,6475,882
Most in one year 511423
Babies in 2025 6624
Estimated living today 13,0005,500
Median age today 3041
Peak year 19911974
Best rank 436th boys377th boys
Rank in 2025 2,167th4,249th
First recorded 19561963
Girls / boys 29 / 13,61825 / 5,857

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 Demonds alive today are over 41; half the Demarcuses are over 30. That is 11 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 Demond.