Demaris vs Demetria

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Demaris Demetria

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 112 years in which either name was published, Demetria for 85 years and Demaris for 27 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

• 1914–1925 Demaris ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1926–1928 Demetria ahead
• 1932–1944 Demaris ahead
• 1949–2025 Demetria ahead

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Demetrias alive today are over 44; half the Demarises are over 42. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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