How rare is the name Demarcus?

9,564 people in the United States have the first name Demarcus, about 1 in 31,580. It ranks #2,538 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DEMARCUS

#2,538

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,564
About
1 in 31,580
This common or more
80.1%
Who bears it

Of the 9,564 people named Demarcus, 89.3% reported their origin as Black, 4.9% as two or more races and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Demarcus peaked in 1991, when 511 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19562025
Peak year
1991
Births that year
511
In 2025*
66 ▼87%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 13,647 babies have been given the name since 1956. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Demarcus by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,062. The largest share of babies named Demarcus, 45.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1950s#14,8235
1960s#10,11337
1970s#2,071909
1980s#1,0823,246
1990s#1,0624,252
2000s#1,6352,717
2010s#2,2511,943
2020s#3,828538
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–808.5%
Millennials 1981–9645.9%
Generation Z 1997–1232.4%
2013 and later13.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Demarcus is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Demarcus has been most common in Mississippi (6.7×), Louisiana (4.8×), and Georgia (4.6×), and least common in Maryland (0.17×).

11,779 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Demarcus

#2,536 Tory · 9,579#2,537 Ravi · 9,577#2,539 Iva · 9,550#2,540 Katarina · 9,543

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Demarcus, most common first.

#4,734 Demarco · 3,836#9,584 Demarius · 1,440#11,985 Demaris · 1,053#14,636 Demarkus · 802#28,373 Demarious · 317#28,814 Demarquis · 310#30,312 Denarius · 288#36,086 Demarques · 221

Also a last name

As a last name, Demarcus ranks #51,779 of 156,621, with 434 people. See Demarcus as a last name

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