Given name & surname · also Spanish
Demara
Demara is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from French.
Original FrenchDesmarais
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Demara comes from Spanish, and ultimately from French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Demara as a surname developed from DESMARAIS.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Demara through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 128
- 0 boys · 128 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 219 as a first name in 2020; 566 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Demara’s family of names
In English usage, Demara as a surname developed from the French form DESMARAIS. In English usage, Demara as a surname has a related form in DESMARAIS.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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