Demetrios
Demetrios is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 925th, in 1969.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 197477 births
- Best rank
- #925in 1969
- Since 1918
- 2,755people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,755 boys have been named Demetrios in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 77 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1970s alone account for 23%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Demetrios | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | |
| 1920s | 33 | |
| 1930s | 35 | |
| 1940s | 33 | |
| 1950s | 93 | |
| 1960s | 349 | |
| 1970s | 621 | |
| 1980s | 410 | |
| 1990s | 390 | |
| 2000s | 431 | |
| 2010s | 272 | |
| 2020s | 78 |
In 1974, its biggest year
Demetrios was the 928th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1974 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Demetrios
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jobypeak 1977
- Brantpeak 1970
- Dawaynepeak 1977
- Torrencepeak 1973
- Shanpeak 1969
- Marlonpeak 1972
- Damonepeak 1974
- Iranpeak 1978
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.