Demetria
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births · Last seen for boys in 1995 at #6,407
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 371 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,960since 1914
Demetria over time
Rank among girls' names. Demetria 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,833 | 27 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,003 | 25 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,158 | 51 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,177 | 52 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,169 | 52 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,909 | 59 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,642 | 68 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,047 | 56 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,616 | 70 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,206 | 87 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,180 | 84 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,175 | 82 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,769 | 106 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,934 | 91 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,750 | 102 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,511 | 121 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,315 | 137 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,161 | 162 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,327 | 130 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,004 | 187 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,007 | 184 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #1,133 | 158 | — | |
| 1993 | #971 | 194 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #885 | 223 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #824 | 249 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #883 | 219 | — | |
| 1989 | #775 | 250 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #791 | 237 | — | |
| 1987 | #888 | 190 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #815 | 206 | — | |
| 1985 | #886 | 180 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #821 | 191 | — | |
| 1983 | #765 | 209 | — | |
| 1982 | #750 | 222 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #695 | 245 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #642 | 284 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #560 | 328 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #608 | 281 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #564 | 311 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #601 | 267 | — | |
| 1975 | #504 | 354 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | #478 | 371 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #485 | 370 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #512 | 336 | — | |
| 1971 | #514 | 361 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #597 | 294 | — | |
| 1969 | #616 | 261 | — | |
| 1968 | #703 | 192 | — | |
| 1967 | #753 | 171 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | #843 | 140 | — | |
| 1965 | #922 | 120 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,001 | 114 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,065 | 102 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,114 | 95 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,083 | 102 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,301 | 71 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,262 | 72 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,364 | 60 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,507 | 50 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,480 | 51 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,463 | 48 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,702 | 36 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,973 | 27 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,746 | 32 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,481 | 40 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,835 | 27 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,967 | 24 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,828 | 13 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,597 | 14 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 | — | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 | — | |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,404 | 12 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,972 | 9 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | #1,961 | 19 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,339 | 15 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,708 | 12 | — | |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | — | |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 | — | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,638 | 8 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Demetria! It came in at #2,638, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Demetria is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#420 · 1 in 2,552
- Mississippi#474 · 1 in 2,361
- Kentucky#492 · 1 in 3,346
- Alabama#519 · 1 in 3,014
- Missouri#762 · 1 in 5,852
Best ever in a state: #155 in District of Columbia, 1974.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | #420 | 12 | 1 in 2,552 |
| Mississippi | #474 | 5 | 1 in 2,361 |
| Kentucky | #492 | 6 | 1 in 3,346 |
| Alabama | #519 | 7 | 1 in 3,014 |
| Missouri | #762 | 5 | 1 in 5,852 |
| Georgia | #814 | 8 | 1 in 5,716 |
| Ohio | #850 | 8 | 1 in 7,692 |
| Michigan | #1,028 | 6 | 1 in 8,549 |
| North Carolina | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 8,499 |
| Florida | #1,059 | 9 | 1 in 8,302 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,182 | 5 | 1 in 11,586 |
| Illinois | #1,486 | 5 | 1 in 13,966 |
| Texas | #1,662 | 9 | 1 in 16,358 |
| New York | #1,746 | 6 | 1 in 16,637 |
| California | #3,120 | 5 | 1 in 43,811 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Demetria
- 62 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #5,238)
- 235 spots since 2020 (#5,003 → #5,238)
- 2,061 spots since 2015 (#3,177 → #5,238)
- Biggest jump: 97 spots in 1988 (#888 → #791)
- Biggest drop: 162 spots in 1994 (#971 → #1,133)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1974 at #478 (371 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1965–1993
- Highest: 1 in 3,941 girls born in 1973 were named Demetria (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #478 in 1974, was only 1 in 3,956 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.9% of all girls named Demetria (3,273) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 34 | #2,638 (1914) | #3,698 |
| 1920s | 88 | #1,961 (1928) | #3,120 |
| 1930s | 73 | #2,404 (1933) | #3,229 |
| 1940s | 108 | #1,967 (1949) | #2,923 |
| 1950s | 443 | #1,262 (1959) | #1,581 |
| 1960s | 1,368 | #616 (1969) | #940 |
| 1970s | 3,273 | #478 (1974) | #542 |
| 1980s | 2,214 | #642 (1980) | #783 |
| 1990s | 1,843 | #824 (1991) | #1,051 |
| 2000s | 872 | #1,511 (2000) | #2,175 |
| 2010s | 508 | #2,642 (2010) | #3,275 |
| 2020s | 136 | #4,833 (2021) | #5,695 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Demetria in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
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1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 12,948 of them was named Demetria, which outranked 92.2% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,309Jami138
- #1,309Selene138
- #1,309Valencia138
- #1,315Demetria137
- #1,315Adrianne137
- #1,315Callista137
- #1,315Maira137
- #1,321Charlie136
- #1,321Devan136
- #1,321Iyanna136
Tied with 5 names at #1,315; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.