Demetrios
#5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · boys
- 1969 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,770since 1918
Demetrios over time
Rank among boys' names. Demetrios has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #5,320 | 17 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #3,431 | 32 |
| 2014 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #2,958 | 39 |
| 2009 | #3,476 | 31 |
| 2008 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 2007 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #2,784 | 41 |
| 2005 | #2,433 | 47 |
| 2004 | #2,208 | 52 |
| 2003 | #2,620 | 38 |
| 2002 | #1,943 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #1,944 | 53 |
| 1999 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #2,552 | 33 |
| 1997 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #2,145 | 39 |
| 1995 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #2,259 | 35 |
| 1993 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #1,697 | 50 |
| 1991 | #2,052 | 36 |
| 1990 | #1,547 | 54 |
| 1989 | #1,858 | 40 |
| 1988 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | #1,896 | 33 |
| 1986 | #1,588 | 41 |
| 1985 | #1,764 | 34 |
| 1984 | #1,531 | 40 |
| 1983 | #1,594 | 37 |
| 1982 | #1,395 | 46 |
| 1981 | #1,309 | 50 |
| 1980 | #1,154 | 62 |
| 1979 | #1,116 | 64 |
| 1978 | #1,170 | 58 |
| 1977 | #1,312 | 47 |
| 1976 | #990 | 71 |
| 1975 | #1,042 | 63 |
| 1974 | #923 | 77 |
| 1973 | #1,006 | 64 |
| 1972 | #960 | 71 |
| 1971 | #1,235 | 45 |
| 1970 | #1,051 | 60 |
| 1969 | #920 | 68 |
| 1968 | #1,100 | 46 |
| 1967 | #1,231 | 37 |
| 1966 | #1,178 | 40 |
| 1965 | #1,335 | 33 |
| 1964 | #1,510 | 27 |
| 1963 | #1,426 | 30 |
| 1962 | #1,546 | 26 |
| 1961 | #1,635 | 24 |
| 1960 | #1,910 | 18 |
| 1959 | #1,759 | 21 |
| 1958 | #2,093 | 15 |
| 1957 | #2,631 | 10 |
| 1956 | #2,628 | 10 |
| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #2,153 | 13 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,580 | 9 |
| 1949 | #2,606 | 9 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,996 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
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| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
| 1932 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
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| 1928 | #3,076 | 8 |
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| 1926 | #3,385 | 7 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
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| 1920 | #3,815 | 6 |
| 1919 | #4,168 | 5 |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Demetrios! It came in at #4,179, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1922, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Demetrios is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#339 · 1 in 5,652
- Maryland#371 · 1 in 4,532
- New Jersey#484 · 1 in 6,063
- New York#511 · 1 in 6,530
- Illinois#567 · 1 in 7,614
Best ever in a state: #275 in Massachusetts, 1972.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #339 | 6 | 1 in 5,652 |
| Maryland | #371 | 5 | 1 in 4,532 |
| New Jersey | #484 | 7 | 1 in 6,063 |
| New York | #511 | 17 | 1 in 6,530 |
| Illinois | #567 | 11 | 1 in 7,614 |
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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 Demetrios
- 51 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #5,608)
- 157 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #5,608)
- 2,177 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #5,608)
- Biggest jump: 275 spots in 1972 (#1,235 → #960)
- Biggest drop: 322 spots in 1977 (#990 → #1,312)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1969 at #920 (68 births)
- Births halved by 1985, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · 1969–1976
- Highest: 1 in 20,420 boys born in 1974 were named Demetrios (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #920 in 1969, was only 1 in 26,297 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.4% of all boys named Demetrios (620) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,168 (1919) | #4,174 |
| 1920s | 33 | #3,076 (1928) | #3,588 |
| 1930s | 35 | #2,849 (1932) | #3,423 |
| 1940s | 33 | #2,606 (1949) | #3,116 |
| 1950s | 93 | #1,759 (1959) | #2,494 |
| 1960s | 349 | #920 (1969) | #1,379 |
| 1970s | 620 | #923 (1974) | #1,081 |
| 1980s | 410 | #1,154 (1980) | #1,634 |
| 1990s | 390 | #1,547 (1990) | #2,147 |
| 2000s | 431 | #1,943 (2002) | #2,611 |
| 2010s | 272 | #2,798 (2011) | #4,040 |
| 2020s | 94 | #5,110 (2021) | #5,726 |
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.
Demetrios in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 26,899 of them was named Demetrios, which outranked 84.2% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,108Renaldo65
- #1,108Samual65
- #1,108Zeb65
- #1,116Demetrios64
- #1,116Amy64
- #1,116Arnoldo64
- #1,116Carter64
- #1,128Ashton63
- #1,128Connor63
- #1,128Corbin63
Tied with 11 names at #1,116; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.