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Demario vs Demaris

American parents have registered 6,381 Demarios since 1880, against 1,304 Demarises. Demario is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demario against Demaris, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demario Demaris

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 111 years in which either name was published, Demario for 56 years and Demaris for 55 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Demario Demaris
Total US births 6,3811,304
Most in one year 33826
Babies in 2025 30under 5
Estimated living today 6,100940
Median age today 3342
Peak year 19891952
Best rank 523rd boys2,023rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,658thunranked
First recorded 19681914
Girls / boys 17 / 6,3641,018 / 286

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 Demarises alive today are over 42; half the Demarios are over 33. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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