Demarcus
Masculine · “of Marcus”
Demarcus is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 13,618 boys against 29 girls since 1880.
DeMarcus joins the De- prefix to Marcus, and the De- comes from a documented American naming practice rather than from French or Spanish.
How old is the name Demarcus?
Demarcus first appears in US birth records in 1956 — 69 years ago. The typical Demarcus alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 13,000 people named Demarcus are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demarcus most popular?
Demarcus peaked in 1988, reaching #429 nationally. Today it ranks #2167, 1,738 places below that high. See the whole 1988 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mars to Demarcus
Our story of Demarcus
Our story of DeMarcus is a story of a prefix that became a naming tool. African-American families from the mid-twentieth century took De-, La-, Ja- and Ke- as free-standing name-building elements, attaching them to existing names and to new syllables: DeMarcus, DeAndre, DeShawn, DeWayne. The Marcus half is Roman and probably names the god Mars; the De- half is American and about seventy years old. Both are worth saying.
Meaning
of Marcus
The Marcus element is from the Latin Marcus, generally derived from Mars. The De- prefix is an American formation, borrowed as a sound from French and Spanish surnames rather than functioning grammatically. The Latin is documented; the compound is twentieth-century American.
How the name formed
- Mars
- Marcus
- DeMarcus
Related forms: Demarcus · Marcus · DeAndre
Pronouncing Demarcus
dih-MAR-kus
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The capital M is often kept inside the name.
Nicknames for Demarcus
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1956
- Most boys named
- 1991511 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #429reached in 1988
- Change vs 2024
- −2.9%66 in 2025, from 68
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Demarcus in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Demarcus in English — spelling variant
- Marcus in English — related form
- DeAndre in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Florida.
Demarcuss among us
people named Demarcus are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 25,880 born in 2025 was named Demarcus
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Haskell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Demarcus's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Haskell climbed just as high around 1908, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Haskell's path sketches the road Demarcus is walking now.
Demarcus sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Demarcus is headed
Demarcus is easing off slowly — about 24% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Demarcus beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Demarcus in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Marcus half has a real Roman ancestry.
- Marcus and Dee are two short forms, both with real records.
- It records a documented American naming tradition.
- The internal capital is often flattened in records.
- The De- prefix does not function grammatically as it does in French.
- It is period-coded to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Demarcuss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,000 people named Demarcus are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demarcus in 2025?
- Demarcus ranks #2167 among US boy names in 2025, with 66 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Demarcus?
- About 1 in every 25,880 US boys born in 2025 was named Demarcus — 66 in all.
- Will my child share the name Demarcus with classmates?
- Demarcus will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Demarcus
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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