Demetrice
Feminine · “devoted to Demeter”
Demetrice is given to both — 1,754 girls and 1,657 boys since 1880. See Demetrice as a boy nameSee other names given to both
The -ice ending on this name reads as a woman's and the record says otherwise. Patrice, Clarice and Denise have made the ending look feminine to English eyes, and a man's name given that ending should by all the usual signals have crossed over. This one has not.
How old is the name Demetrice?
Demetrice first appears in US birth records in 1946 — 79 years ago. The typical Demetrice alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 1,600 people named Demetrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demetrice most popular?
Demetrice peaked in 1965, reaching #1302 nationally. See the whole 1965 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Demetrios to Demetrice
The story of Demetrice
The goddess's own name is only half explained. The second part is generally agreed to be the word for mother, which is transparent and appears all over the Indo-European languages. The first part is not: proposals include a word for the earth, a word for barley, and a pre-Greek element that cannot be analyzed at all, and none has won. So the most important agricultural deity in the Greek world is called mother-something and nobody can finish the sentence — which is an unusually honest thing for a scholarly consensus to admit about a figure that central.
Meaning
devoted to Demeter
The man's name behind it means belonging to the goddess, and it was an ordinary Greek name of the kind formed on a deity. The added ending contributes no sense of its own.
How the name formed
- Demetrios
- Demetrius
- Demetrice
Pronouncing Demetrice
duh-MEE-triss
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The ending is said as a plain s, not as the French -eece the spelling might suggest.
Nicknames for Demetrice
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
- 1946
- Most girls named
- 197780 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1302reached in 1965
- Change vs 2000
- −16.7%5 in 2001, from 6
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.
Demetrices among us
people named Demetrice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Demetrice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It carries a genuinely ancient Greek name behind a modern-looking surface.
- The rhythm is even and the name carries well at length.
- It works across the sexes, which the ending does not prepare anyone for.
- The ending reads as feminine, but the record splits this spelling almost evenly between boys and girls, so it signals nothing on a form.
- Demetrius and Demetria are both closer to the source and get substituted.
- It is closely tied to the middle decades of the last century.
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- How many Demetrices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Demetrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demetrice in 2025?
- Demetrice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Demetrice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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