Demian
Last seen for girls in 1973 at #6,666 · #2,480 for boys in 2025, 54 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,105since 1966
Demian over time
Rank among boys' names. Demian 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 | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,480 | 54 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,345 | 60 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,315 | 60 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,191 | 66 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,972 | 41 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,689 | 46 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,694 | 47 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,796 | 43 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,637 | 47 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,626 | 47 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,919 | 40 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,017 | 70 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,009 | 68 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,863 | 78 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,129 | 62 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,144 | 62 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,252 | 58 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,062 | 67 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,681 | 90 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,310 | 54 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,493 | 45 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,376 | 47 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,847 | 34 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,882 | 32 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,061 | 29 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,537 | 15 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,159 | 12 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,960 | 12 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,108 | 14 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,898 | 15 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,965 | 15 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,794 | 29 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,335 | 46 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,163 | 54 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,114 | 57 | |
| 1974 | — | #919 | 78 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #1,074 | 57 |
| 1972 | — | #1,137 | 51 | |
| 1971 | — | #958 | 72 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,016 | 64 | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | #1,351 | 35 |
| 1968 | — | #2,030 | 16 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Demian! It came in at #3,948, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Demian is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#821 · 1 in 15,014
- New York#923 · 1 in 20,313
Best ever in a state: #319 in Oregon, 1970.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #821 | 10 | 1 in 15,014 |
| New York | #923 | 6 | 1 in 20,313 |
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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 Demian
- 135 spots since 2024 (#2,345 → #2,480)
- 209 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #2,480)
- 439 spots since 2015 (#2,919 → #2,480)
- Biggest jump: 155 spots in 1974 (#1,074 → #919)
- Biggest drop: 195 spots in 1975 (#919 → #1,114)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1974 at #919 (78 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1971–1974
- Highest: 1 in 20,158 boys born in 1974 were named Demian (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 31,631 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.8% of all boys named Demian (564) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 63 | #1,351 (1969) | #2,640 |
| 1970s | 520 | #919 (1974) | #1,387 |
| 1980s | 69 | #2,898 (1981) | #4,748 |
| 1990s | 91 | #4,537 (1999) | #6,229 |
| 2000s | 471 | #1,681 (2007) | #2,675 |
| 2010s | 564 | #1,863 (2012) | #2,383 |
| 2020s | 327 | #2,191 (2022) | #2,499 |
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.
Demian in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 31,796 of them was named Demian, which outranked 80.2% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,129Randel52
- #1,129Shedrick52
- #1,129Walker52
- #1,137Demian51
- #1,137Abram51
- #1,137Bartholomew51
- #1,137Benton51
- #1,149Adalberto50
- #1,149Anthoney50
- #1,149Artis50
Tied with 11 names at #1,137; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.