Demarcus
Last seen for girls in 1989 at #12,362 · #2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 438 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 13,618since 1956
Demarcus over time
Rank among boys' names. Demarcus has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,167 | 66 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,156 | 68 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,896 | 83 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,815 | 89 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,740 | 93 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,297 | 139 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,372 | 130 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,168 | 164 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,121 | 171 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,159 | 165 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,082 | 181 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,004 | 205 | |
| 2013 | — | #914 | 227 | |
| 2012 | — | #936 | 217 | |
| 2011 | — | #910 | 222 | |
| 2010 | — | #820 | 261 | |
| 2009 | — | #823 | 267 | |
| 2008 | — | #714 | 326 | |
| 2007 | — | #764 | 288 | |
| 2006 | — | #734 | 291 | |
| 2005 | — | #755 | 263 | |
| 2004 | — | #777 | 234 | |
| 2003 | — | #750 | 239 | |
| 2002 | — | #703 | 254 | |
| 2001 | — | #705 | 253 | |
| 2000 | — | #622 | 302 | |
| 1999 | — | #606 | 302 | |
| 1998 | — | #579 | 338 | |
| 1997 | — | #541 | 366 | |
| 1996 | — | #510 | 404 | |
| 1995 | — | #497 | 428 | |
| 1994 | — | #454 | 489 | |
| 1993 | — | #463 | 456 | |
| 1992 | — | #470 | 460 | |
| 1991 | — | #436 | 511 | |
| 1990 | — | #443 | 498 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #441 | 456 |
| 1988 | — | #429 | 438 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #460 | 369 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #450 | 374 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #455 | 354 |
| 1984 | — | #527 | 264 | |
| 1983 | — | #507 | 276 | |
| 1982 | — | #543 | 251 | |
| 1981 | — | #586 | 211 | |
| 1980 | — | #576 | 224 | |
| 1979 | — | #640 | 177 | |
| 1978 | — | #663 | 159 | |
| 1977 | — | #710 | 143 | |
| 1976 | — | #797 | 109 | |
| 1975 | — | #867 | 92 | |
| 1974 | — | #942 | 75 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,074 | 57 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,285 | 42 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,400 | 37 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,125 | 18 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,861 | 10 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,735 | 10 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,231 | 7 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Demarcus! It came in at #3,942, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1966, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Demarcus
- 11 spots since 2024 (#2,156 → #2,167)
- 870 spots since 2020 (#1,297 → #2,167)
- 1,085 spots since 2015 (#1,082 → #2,167)
- Biggest jump: 132 spots in 1974 (#1,074 → #942)
- Biggest drop: 109 spots in 2009 (#714 → #823)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 1988 at #429 (438 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1974–2013
- Highest: 1 in 3,951 boys born in 1994 were named Demarcus (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #429 in 1988, was only 1 in 4,371 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.2% of all boys named Demarcus (4,252) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,942 |
| 1960s | 37 | #2,735 (1968) | #3,363 |
| 1970s | 909 | #640 (1979) | #1,050 |
| 1980s | 3,217 | #429 (1988) | #497 |
| 1990s | 4,252 | #436 (1991) | #500 |
| 2000s | 2,717 | #622 (2000) | #735 |
| 2010s | 1,943 | #820 (2010) | #1,049 |
| 2020s | 538 | #1,297 (2020) | #1,845 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Demarcus in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 368,710 of them was named Demarcus, which outranked 15.0% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,188 names at #12,362; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 4,388 of them was named Demarcus, which outranked 95.2% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).