Demetri

Where Demetri comes from

Demetri hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1953
    First appearance
    #3,425 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1973
    Demetri Martin born
    American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist
  4. 1992
    Peak, #783
    178 babies named Demetri — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1997
    Demetri Mitchell born
    English association football player
  6. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,648.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Demetri Martin · American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist, born 1973
  • Demetri Mitchell · English association football player, born 1997
  • Demetri Dollis · Victoria, Australian and Greek politician, born 1956
  • Demetri Terzopoulos · Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, born 2000
  • Demetri McCamey · American basketball player, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.