Demontre
Masculine
English almost never ends a word in -re. The words that do are all borrowings kept in French dress: genre, timbre, cadre, oeuvre, macabre. American English went further and reversed the rest, turning center into center and theater into theater. A name ending -re is therefore wearing a foreign spelling on purpose.
How old is the name Demontre?
Demontre first appears in US birth records in 1986 — 39 years ago. The typical Demontre alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 500 people named Demontre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demontre most popular?
Demontre peaked in 1998, reaching #2068 nationally. Today it ranks #8243, 6,175 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Demontre
Our reading is that the -re ending in this family is a spelling choice with a specific effect. Noah Webster's American dictionaries of 1806 and 1828 changed center to center, color to color and defense to defense, and the changes stuck, which means that in American writing a French-looking spelling is now marked. It signals borrowing, formality or art: theater for the building that puts on plays, theater for the one that shows films. A name spelled Demontre is using that signal. The sound it represents, a stressed final ay, could equally be written -tray or -tre or with an accent, and the -re version is the one that looks French. This is the same instinct behind Coty for Cody and the accents that appear on names with no French history, and it is entirely about how the word looks in writing.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Demontre is an American formation joining the De- prefix to a stem drawn from Montrell and Deandre, with a final -re that represents a stressed vowel. The prefix descends from the French and Spanish preposition de as it appears in surnames, but carries no meaning here. Nothing in the name comes from a word in any language. It peaks in 1998.
Pronouncing Demontre
duh-MON-tray
Three syllables, stress on the second, with the final syllable carrying a secondary stress and a long open vowel. Demontrae and Demontray are the same name with the ending spelled out.
Nicknames for Demontre
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
- 1986
- Most boys named
- 199845 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2068reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- +50.0%9 in 2025, 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.
Demontres among us
people named Demontre are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 189,786 born in 2025 was named Demontre
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 Jebediah test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Demontre's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jebediah climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jebediah's path sketches the road Demontre is walking now.
Demontre 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
Demontre beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Demontre in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Tre and Monte are both usable short forms.
- The rhythm is distinctive and consistent.
- The sound is familiar within its cohort.
- The -re ending is regularly misread as silent.
- Several spellings of the same sound circulate.
- There is no meaning behind any element.
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Frequently asked
- How many Demontres are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Demontre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demontre in 2025?
- Demontre ranks #8243 among US boy names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Demontre?
- About 1 in every 189,786 US boys born in 2025 was named Demontre — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Demontre with classmates?
- Demontre will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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