Demarcus
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #12,362 · #2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 438 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,618since 1956
Demarcus over time
Rank among boys' names. Demarcus has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,167 | 66 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,156 | 68 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,896 | 83 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,815 | 89 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,740 | 93 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,297 | 139 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,372 | 130 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,168 | 164 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,121 | 171 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,159 | 165 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,082 | 181 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,004 | 205 | |
| 2013 | — | #914 | 227 | |
| 2012 | — | #936 | 217 | |
| 2011 | — | #910 | 222 | |
| 2010 | — | #820 | 261 | |
| 2009 | — | #823 | 267 | |
| 2008 | — | #714 | 326 | |
| 2007 | — | #764 | 288 | |
| 2006 | — | #734 | 291 | |
| 2005 | — | #755 | 263 | |
| 2004 | — | #777 | 234 | |
| 2003 | — | #750 | 239 | |
| 2002 | — | #703 | 254 | |
| 2001 | — | #705 | 253 | |
| 2000 | — | #622 | 302 | |
| 1999 | — | #606 | 302 | |
| 1998 | — | #579 | 338 | |
| 1997 | — | #541 | 366 | |
| 1996 | — | #510 | 404 | |
| 1995 | — | #497 | 428 | |
| 1994 | — | #454 | 489 | |
| 1993 | — | #463 | 456 | |
| 1992 | — | #470 | 460 | |
| 1991 | — | #436 | 511 | |
| 1990 | — | #443 | 498 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #441 | 456 |
| 1988 | — | #429 | 438 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #460 | 369 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #450 | 374 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #455 | 354 |
| 1984 | — | #527 | 264 | |
| 1983 | — | #507 | 276 | |
| 1982 | — | #543 | 251 | |
| 1981 | — | #586 | 211 | |
| 1980 | — | #576 | 224 | |
| 1979 | — | #640 | 177 | |
| 1978 | — | #663 | 159 | |
| 1977 | — | #710 | 143 | |
| 1976 | — | #797 | 109 | |
| 1975 | — | #867 | 92 | |
| 1974 | — | #942 | 75 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,074 | 57 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,285 | 42 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,400 | 37 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,125 | 18 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,735 | 10 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Demarcus! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Demarcus is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#98 · 1 in 455
- Louisiana#151 · 1 in 734
- Tennessee#163 · 1 in 1,092
- Alabama#165 · 1 in 956
- South Carolina#166 · 1 in 864
Best ever in a state: #66 in Mississippi, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #98 | 36 | 1 in 455 |
| Louisiana | #151 | 43 | 1 in 734 |
| Tennessee | #163 | 31 | 1 in 1,092 |
| Alabama | #165 | 27 | 1 in 956 |
| South Carolina | #166 | 26 | 1 in 864 |
| Georgia | #178 | 42 | 1 in 1,112 |
| Arkansas | #214 | 10 | 1 in 1,469 |
| Kentucky | #262 | 8 | 1 in 2,952 |
| Texas | #262 | 92 | 1 in 1,566 |
| North Carolina | #302 | 17 | 1 in 2,560 |
| Michigan | #359 | 16 | 1 in 4,042 |
| Missouri | #460 | 6 | 1 in 6,085 |
| Illinois | #473 | 17 | 1 in 4,909 |
| Florida | #517 | 15 | 1 in 5,631 |
| Indiana | #524 | 5 | 1 in 7,758 |
| Virginia | #565 | 5 | 1 in 8,026 |
| Ohio | #605 | 7 | 1 in 10,988 |
| California | #1,929 | 5 | 1 in 50,448 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Demarcus
- 11 spots since 2024 (#2,156 → #2,167)
- 870 spots since 2020 (#1,297 → #2,167)
- 1,085 spots since 2015 (#1,082 → #2,167)
- Biggest jump: 132 spots in 1974 (#1,074 → #942)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2009 (#714 → #823)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1988 at #429 (438 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1974–2013
- Highest: 1 in 3,951 boys born in 1994 were named Demarcus (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #429 in 1988, was only 1 in 4,371 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.2% of all boys named Demarcus (4,252) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,942 |
| 1960s | 37 | #2,735 (1968) | #3,363 |
| 1970s | 909 | #640 (1979) | #1,050 |
| 1980s | 3,217 | #429 (1988) | #497 |
| 1990s | 4,252 | #436 (1991) | #500 |
| 2000s | 2,717 | #622 (2000) | #735 |
| 2010s | 1,943 | #820 (2010) | #1,049 |
| 2020s | 538 | #1,297 (2020) | #1,845 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Demarcus in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 4,371 of them was named Demarcus, which outranked 94.9% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).