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Demetrius

Pronounced /dəˈmiː.tɹi.əs/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1975 · #1331
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for boys:213 in 2024 (#1,040)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
00.20.40.618801900192019401960198020002020
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Demetrius in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1975 with 82 babies, ranked #1331.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1946.
  • 1,727 girls have been named Demetrius since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Demetrius per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 250 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 908 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 519 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 50 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Ancient Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios, literally “belonging to Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), the earth goddess”); from Δή (Dḗ), an early form of γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”). Doublet of Dimitris and Dmitry.

  • A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Origin
Ancient Greek
Say it
/dəˈmiː.tɹi.əs/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Demetrius, CC BY-SA 4.0.