Demetris
Feminine · “Of Demeter”
Demetris is given to both — 892 girls and 2,613 boys since 1880. See Demetris as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Demetris belongs to the goddess of the grain, and the two most famous men who carried the name were a siege engineer and a soldier saint — which is a wider range than most names manage.
How old is the name Demetris?
Demetris first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Demetris alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 800 people named Demetris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demetris most popular?
Demetris peaked in 1975, reaching #1963 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Demetrios to Demetris
The story of Demetris
One Demetrius built the largest machine anybody had ever seen. Nicknamed the Besieger, he came at Rhodes with a siege tower nine stories high, plated in iron, moved on eight wheels by a crew of thousands — and failed to take the city, which sold the abandoned machine for scrap and used the money to build the Colossus. The other Demetrius is a soldier and martyr who became the patron of Thessaloniki, and whose feast in late October marked the end of the agricultural year across the Balkans: the day shepherds came down from the hills, contracts ended, rents fell due. A name from a grain goddess, keeping the farming calendar under a saint's name for another thousand years.
Meaning
Of Demeter
The name means belonging to the goddess of grain and harvest, and it has been one of the commonest men's names in the Greek world for two and a half thousand years. The meaning has never been in dispute, whatever the arguments about the goddess's own name.
How the name formed
- Demetrios
- Demetrius
- Demetris
Related forms: Dimitris · Dmitri · Demetrio · Demetrio
Pronouncing Demetris
duh-MEE-tris
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Modern Greek says thee-MEE-trees, with a softer opening consonant.
Nicknames for Demetris
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
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 197545 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1963reached in 1975
- Change vs 1993
- −33.3%6 in 1999, from 9
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.
Demetris in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dimitris in Greek — same name
- Dmitri in Russian — same name
- Demetrio in Italian — same name
- Demetrio in Spanish — same name
Demetriss among us
people named Demetris 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
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Demetris 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
- The meaning is settled and the name has been in continuous use for millennia.
- It has native forms across Greece, Russia, Italy and Spain.
- It shortens in several directions with quite different registers.
- Demetrius and Dimitri are both more familiar in America and his will be written as one of them.
- The spelling is recorded for both sexes, though the boys hold nearly all of it.
- The final s is a Greek nominative ending, which some families drop and others keep.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Demetris are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Demetris is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Demetris will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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