Demarion
Masculine · “the De- prefix on Marion”
Demarion is built the way a large family of American names is built: a De- in front, and a name behind it. The prefix is not decoration — it has a real history in American naming, and it came from French.
How old is the name Demarion?
Demarion first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Demarion alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 3,500 people named Demarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demarion most popular?
Demarion peaked in 2005, reaching #669 nationally. Today it ranks #2833, 2,164 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
Where it comes from
From Marie to Demarion
The story of Demarion
The De- prefix entered American naming through French and Louisiana Creole usage, where de marked a surname, and it became something quite different: a way of building new given names, freely combinable with almost any second element. That practice produced hundreds of names from the nineteen-sixties onward and is one of the most productive naming systems English has seen in a century. Marion, meanwhile, is a medieval French pet form of Marie that became a surname and then an American given name for both sexes. Demarion joins the two.
Meaningscholars disagree
the De- prefix on Marion, itself from Marie
Marion is a medieval French diminutive of Marie, so the second half descends from Miriam, whose own meaning has never been settled. The De- is the part with its own story: French and Creole naming in Louisiana used de and du in surnames, and African-American naming took the sound as a productive prefix in the twentieth century, giving DeAndre, DeShawn, DeMarcus and Demarion. It is a real pattern with a traceable source, and it adds sound rather than meaning.
How the name formed
- Marie
- Marion
- Demarion
Related forms: Marion · Demario
Pronouncing Demarion
dee-MAIR-ee-un
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Some families say deh-mah-ree-OHN, keeping the ending fuller, and both are in use; the name is recent enough that neither has become standard.
Nicknames for Demarion
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
- 1983
- Most boys named
- 2005315 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #669reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −25.4%44 in 2025, from 59
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.
Demarion in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marion in French — related form
- Demario in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois, Texas, Mississippi.
Demarions among us
people named Demarion are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 38,820 born in 2025 was named Demarion
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 Jamil test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Demarion's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jamil climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jamil's path sketches the road Demarion is walking now.
Demarion 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 Demarion is headed
Demarion should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Demarion beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Demarion in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Built by a real and well-documented American naming system rather than assembled at random.
- Dee and Rio are both natural short forms and both are names elsewhere.
- Four syllables give it weight, with everyday forms available underneath.
- Demarion, Demarrion, DeMarion and Damarion are all in use, including with a capital M.
- Four syllables is long and the name will be shortened by nearly everyone.
- The two stress patterns both circulate, so the child will be correcting people.
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Frequently asked
- How many Demarions are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,500 people named Demarion are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demarion in 2025?
- Demarion ranks #2833 among US boy names in 2025, with 44 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Demarion?
- About 1 in every 38,820 US boys born in 2025 was named Demarion — 44 in all.
- Will my child share the name Demarion with classmates?
- Demarion will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Demarion
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