Demetrius
Masculine · “devoted to Demeter”
Demetrius is given to both — 36,064 boys and 1,727 girls since 1880. See Demetrius as a girl nameSee other names given to both
A man with this name started a riot in Ephesus because his business was suffering. He made silver shrines of the local goddess, saw the trade falling off as a new religion spread, called a meeting of the other silversmiths and pointed out what it was costing them — and the city spent two hours in an uproar afterwards.
How old is the name Demetrius?
Demetrius first appears in US birth records in 1912 — 113 years ago. The typical Demetrius alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 34,000 people named Demetrius are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demetrius most popular?
Demetrius peaked in 1991, reaching #259 nationally. Today it ranks #1227, 968 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Demetrios to Demetrius
The story of Demetrius
English has the Latin form of this name rather than the Greek. The original ends in -os, as Greek names do; Latin regularly turned that ending into -us when it borrowed, and English inherited the Latin version along with almost every other classical name it uses. That is why the same figure is Demetrios in Greece and Demetrius in an English Bible, and why the two look like different names to anybody who has not been told. Almost every ancient Greek name an English speaker knows arrived wearing Roman clothes.
Meaning
devoted to Demeter
A Greek name built on the goddess's, of a kind that was extremely common — names declaring a person's dedication to a particular deity were ordinary rather than pious.
How the name formed
- Demetrios
- Demetrius
Related forms: Dimitrios · Dmitri · Demetrio
Pronouncing Demetrius
duh-MEE-tree-us
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Greek puts it in the same place, which makes the name unusually stable across the two.
Nicknames for Demetrius
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
- 1912
- Most boys named
- 19921,022 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #259reached in 1991
- Change vs 2023
- −37.2%164 in 2025, from 261
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.
Demetrius in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dimitrios in Greek — same name
- Dmitri in Russian — same name
- Demetrio in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Florida, Georgia, Michigan.
Demetriuss among us
people named Demetrius are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 10,415 born in 2025 was named Demetrius
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 Clay test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Demetrius's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Clay climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Clay's path sketches the road Demetrius is walking now.
Demetrius 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 Demetrius is headed
Demetrius 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.
Demetrius beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Demetrius in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries a genuinely ancient Greek name in the form English knows.
- It has short forms in more than one language.
- The rhythm is long and confident and the name carries well.
- It is long and most people will shorten it on first meeting.
- Its peak was recent enough to date the name to a decade.
- The record holds girls as well, and the girl is much the smaller side.
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Frequently asked
- How many Demetriuss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 34,000 people named Demetrius are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demetrius in 2025?
- Demetrius ranks #1227 among US boy names in 2025, with 164 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Demetrius?
- About 1 in every 10,415 US boys born in 2025 was named Demetrius — 164 in all.
- Will my child share the name Demetrius with classmates?
- Demetrius will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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