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How popular is “Demetrius” in the USA?

Number of people named “Demetrius” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Demetrius” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Demetrius” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Demetrius” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Demetrius” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Demetrius” by birth year

This chart shows how “Demetrius” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1912 6 0.000006072 6 -100%
1915 10 0.000005457 10 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1921 11 0.000004712 11 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 7 0.000003 7 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1935 7 0.000003349 7 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1944 7 0.000002602 7 -100%
1945 10 0.000003769 10 -100%
1946 17 0.00000532 6 11 -29%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 -100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 -100%
1949 13 0.000003731 13 -100%
1950 22 0.00000628 22 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 31 0.000008044 31 -100%
1954 80 0.000020097 11 69 -73%
1955 84 0.000020921 13 71 -69%
1956 80 0.000019403 15 65 -63%
1957 95 0.000022608 16 79 -66%
1958 81 0.000019594 10 71 -75%
1959 90 0.000021645 15 75 -67%
1960 97 0.000023352 18 79 -63%
1961 125 0.000030176 24 101 -62%
1962 238 0.000058978 49 189 -59%
1963 219 0.000055328 31 188 -72%
1964 254 0.000065336 42 212 -67%
1965 331 0.000091299 42 289 -75%
1966 292 0.000084013 28 264 -81%
1967 430 0.000126661 45 385 -79%
1968 436 0.000129055 39 397 -82%
1969 493 0.000141857 45 448 -82%
1970 499 0.000138361 33 466 -87%
1971 587 0.00017102 45 542 -85%
1972 666 0.0002119 69 597 -79%
1973 725 0.000240314 72 653 -80%
1974 754 0.000248026 74 680 -80%
1975 717 0.000237465 82 635 -77%
1976 736 0.00024256 80 656 -78%
1977 740 0.000232961 64 676 -83%
1978 723 0.000227798 64 659 -82%
1979 802 0.000241058 67 735 -83%
1980 753 0.000218609 59 694 -84%
1981 774 0.00022374 58 716 -85%
1982 672 0.000191564 45 627 -87%
1983 735 0.000212223 46 689 -87%
1984 656 0.000188033 35 621 -89%
1985 697 0.000195287 41 656 -88%
1986 814 0.00022884 50 764 -88%
1987 774 0.000214665 28 746 -93%
1988 832 0.000225167 43 789 -90%
1989 924 0.000240347 39 885 -92%
1990 889 0.000224922 22 867 -95%
1991 1079 0.000277003 27 1052 -95%
1992 1046 0.000272306 24 1022 -95%
1993 961 0.000254888 19 942 -96%
1994 913 0.000245585 19 894 -96%
1995 868 0.000237019 13 855 -97%
1996 769 0.000210847 10 759 -97%
1997 689 0.00019003 10 679 -97%
1998 678 0.000184329 8 670 -98%
1999 660 0.000178675 10 650 -97%
2000 686 0.000181486 7 679 -98%
2001 682 0.000182188 9 673 -97%
2002 584 0.000156221 584 -100%
2003 554 0.000145701 554 -100%
2004 599 0.000156768 6 593 -98%
2005 496 0.000129004 496 -100%
2006 628 0.000158739 628 -100%
2007 541 0.000135328 541 -100%
2008 523 0.000133056 523 -100%
2009 484 0.000126696 484 -100%
2010 501 0.000135562 501 -100%
2011 432 0.000118104 432 -100%
2012 396 0.000108275 396 -100%
2013 425 0.000116577 425 -100%
2014 362 0.00009767 362 -100%
2015 374 0.000101056 374 -100%
2016 333 0.000090768 333 -100%
2017 325 0.000090879 325 -100%
2018 346 0.00009841 346 -100%
2019 283 0.000081534 283 -100%
2020 266 0.000079627 266 -100%
2021 286 0.000084417 286 -100%
2022 229 0.000067689 229 -100%
2023 261 0.000078823 261 -100%
2024 213 0.000063993 213 -100%

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