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Demetrius
Pronounced /dəˈmiː.tɹi.əs/
Rank in 2024
#1,040
Born in 2024
213
Peak year
1991 · #259
Origin
Ancient Greek
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 213 boys were named Demetrius, about 1 in every 8,053.
- It peaked in 1991 with 1,052 babies, ranked #259.
- It first shows up in the records in 1912.
- 35,899 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 78 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 42 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,333 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,776 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,884 babies, 0.42 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,083 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,703 babies, 0.17 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.