Demetruis
Masculine · “belonging to Demeter”
Demetruis is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 814 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Demetruis writes Demetrius with two of its letters exchanged, and the record files it as a name of its own. The name it comes from is Greek, ancient, and attached to two very different men worth knowing about: a soldier saint and a librarian who chose the wrong prince.
How old is the name Demetruis?
Demetruis first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Demetruis alive today was born around 1985, making them about 40 years old. About 800 people named Demetruis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demetruis most popular?
Demetruis peaked in 1977, reaching #1707 nationally. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Demeter to Demetruis
The story of Demetruis
Demetrius of Thessaloniki was a Roman officer executed for his faith, and his basilica in that city became one of the great pilgrimage churches of the eastern Mediterranean. He is one of the saints called myrrh-streaming, from the scented oil that pilgrims collected at his tomb, and he is still the city's patron. The other Demetrius ran a library. Demetrius of Phalerum governed Athens for a Macedonian patron, was thrown out, went to Egypt and became the adviser who pressed Ptolemy to gather every book in the world into one building at Alexandria. Then he advised the king on which son should succeed him, chose wrong, and the son who did succeed sent him into internal exile in the countryside, where he died. The man who helped build the greatest library in the ancient world lost his position by giving the wrong opinion once.
Meaning
belonging to Demeter
Demeter was the Greek goddess of grain and harvest, and the name simply marks a person as hers. What Demeter's own name meant is a separate and much-argued question.
How the name formed
- Demeter
- Demetrios
- Demetrius
- Demetruis
Related forms: Dimitrios · Dmitri · Demetrio
Pronouncing Demetruis
duh-MEE-tree-us
Four syllables with the stress on the second. The swapped letters at the end make no difference to the sound at all.
Nicknames for Demetruis
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
- 1961
- Most boys named
- 198832 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1707reached in 1977
- Change vs 2016
- −33.3%6 in 2019, 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.
Demetruis in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dimitrios in Greek — same name
- Dmitri in Russian — related form
- Demetrio in Spanish — same name
Demetruiss among us
people named Demetruis 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
Demetruis 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 name behind it is ancient, well documented and carried by saints, kings and generals, so there is no shortage of history to point at.
- Dee comes off the front as a short form and needs no explanation anywhere.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- The last two letters are transposed from the standard spelling, so this version will be corrected by nearly everyone who types it.
- The spelling is recorded for a few girls, but nearly every child with it is a boy.
- Four syllables is a lot to spell aloud, and the unusual ending means it will be spelled aloud often.
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Frequently asked
- How many Demetruiss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Demetruis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demetruis in 2025?
- Demetruis is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Demetruis will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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