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Demetra vs Demond

American parents have registered 5,882 Demonds since 1880, against 4,217 Demetras. Demond is still ahead, with 24 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Demetra against Demond, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Demetra 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 114 years in which either name was published, Demetra for 60 years and Demond for 54 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Demetra Demond
Total US births 4,2175,882
Most in one year 133423
Babies in 2025 724
Estimated living today 3,5005,500
Median age today 5041
Peak year 19751974
Best rank 973rd girls377th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932nd4,249th
First recorded 19121963
Girls / boys 4,205 / 1225 / 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 Demetras alive today are over 50; half the Demonds are over 41. That is 9 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: Demetra and Demond.