How rare is the name Demario?

4,244 people in the United States have the first name Demario, about 1 in 71,167. It ranks #4,419 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DEMARIO

#4,419

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,244
About
1 in 71,167
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,244 people named Demario, 89.1% reported their origin as Black, 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Demario peaked in 1988, when 338 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19682025
Peak year
1988
Births that year
338
In 2025*
30 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 6,381 babies have been given the name since 1968. 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.

Demario by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,345. The largest share of babies named Demario, 50.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1960s#13,71613
1970s#3,025487
1980s#1,3452,235
1990s#2,1101,453
2000s#3,1361,095
2010s#4,048818
2020s#5,897280
Generation X 1965–8010.3%
Millennials 1981–9650.4%
Generation Z 1997–1227.2%
2013 and later12.1%

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 Demario is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Demario has been most common in Georgia (5.9×), Tennessee (4.9×), and Mississippi (4.7×), and least common in Texas (0.13×).

4,601 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.

Spelled almost the same

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

Also a last name

As a last name, Demario ranks #37,363 of 156,621, with 641 people. See Demario as a last name

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