Demetrius
The boy's name Demetrius has been in the national records since 1912, with 37,791 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,227th. About 36,000 Demetriuses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Demetrius boys named Demetrius
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 37,791
- Estimated living today
- 36,000
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 259th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,227th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 1,727 / 36,064
How old the living Demetriuses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 37,791 babies given the name since 1912, about 36,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 6,200 of them are children and 540 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From Ancient Greek Δημήτριος; from Δή, an early form of γῆ (“earth”) + μήτηρ (“mother”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Demetriuss
- Demetrius Zvonimir of Croatia (died 1089)King of Croatia from 8 October 1076 until his death
- Demetrius II of Georgia (1259–1289)King of Georgia
- Demetrius of Montferrat (1205–1230)king of Thessalonica
- Demetrius Grosse (born 1981)American actor
- Demetrius Pinder (born 1989)Bahamian sprinter
- Demetrius Andrade (born 1988)American boxer
- Demetrius I Starshy (1327–1399)Belarusian noble
- Demetrius Shipp Jr. (born 1988)American actor
People named Demetrius with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Demetrius is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Demetrius is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (3.3×), Alabama (3.2×), Georgia (3.0×), Florida (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular boys’ names the year Demetrius peaked:
Demetrius elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Demetrius | 75 | 2,320th |
| France boys | Demetrius | 15 | 770th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Demetrius among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Demetrius | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Demetrius against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.