Demond
Masculine
Demond is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 5,857 boys against 25 girls since 1880.
Demond joins the De- prefix of American naming to -mond, and Desmond stands immediately behind it — an Irish name meaning south Munster.
How old is the name Demond?
Demond first appears in US birth records in 1963 — 62 years ago. The typical Demond alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 5,500 people named Demond are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demond most popular?
Demond peaked in 1974, reaching #377 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 3,872 places below that high. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Demond
Ours, offered as ours. Desmond is one of the few personal names that is a compass direction and a province: Deas-Mhumhan means south Munster, and the FitzGerald earls of Desmond took their title from it before the name became a given one. Demond sits beside it with the American De- prefix. Two entirely different De- elements — an Irish word for south and an American prefix — meeting at the same six letters.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Desmond is documented: from Irish Deas-Mhumhan, south Munster, a region and then a family title. Whether Demond clips it or was assembled from De- and -mond is not recorded. The -mond ending also appears in Raymond and Edmund from Germanic mund, protection.
Pronouncing Demond
duh-MOND
Two syllables with the stress on the second. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Demond
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
- 1963
- Most boys named
- 1974416 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #377reached in 1974
- Change vs 2024
- +60.0%24 in 2025, from 15
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.
Demond in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Deasmhumhain in Irish — related form
- Desmond in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Louisiana, Texas, Illinois.
Demonds among us
people named Demond are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Demond
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carmine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Demond's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carmine climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carmine's path sketches the road Demond is walking now.
Demond 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
Demond beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Demond in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Des and Dee are both plain short forms in ordinary use.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- A genuinely interesting Irish name stands beside it.
- Desmond is far more common and will be assumed.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Demonds are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,500 people named Demond are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demond in 2025?
- Demond ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Demond?
- About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Demond — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Demond with classmates?
- Demond will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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