Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Demetrios isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Demetrios through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,770
- 2,770 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 77 babies
- 2025
- 16
- #5,669 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −18%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 16 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,669 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 17.9% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 77 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,717 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Demetrios’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Demetrios has a conventional equivalent in the English form Demetrius. In German usage, Demetrios has a conventional equivalent in the Esperanto form Demetrio.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Dimitriequivalent
- DemetriusEnglish
- Dmitriequivalent
- Dimitriosequivalent
- DemetrioEsperanto
- Dmitryequivalent
- Dimitryequivalent
- Dmitriyequivalent
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- Demetrisequivalent
- Demetreequivalent
- Demeterequivalent
- Dimitarequivalent
- Dimitrisequivalent
- Δημήτρηςequivalent
- Mitsosequivalent
- Dimitrijequivalent
- Dumitruequivalent
- Τάκηςequivalent
- Дмитрийequivalent
- Mimisequivalent
- Takisequivalent
- Μίμηςequivalent
- Demetriuszequivalent
- Μήτσοςequivalent
- Demétrioequivalent
- Димитърequivalent
- Dimitrosequivalent
- Δημητρόςequivalent
People named Demetrios
- Demetrios VikelasGreek businessman and writer; president of the International Olympic Committee (1835-1908)
- Demetrius of PhalerumGreek statesman and philosopher (c.350–c.280 BC)349 BC–282 BC
- Demetrius I Poliorcetesking of Macedon336 BC–282 BC
- Demetrius I SoterRuler of Seleucid Empire from 162 to 150 BC186 BC–149 BC
- Demetrius II NicatorSeleucid king from 145 to 138 BC160 BC–124 BC
- Demetrius of ThessalonikiChristian martyr (died 306)300–306
- Demetrius III Eucaerusking of Syria150 BC–87 BC
- Demetrius I of Bactria2nd century BC Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek king300 BC–180 BC
- Demetrius II AetolicusKing of Macedonia268 BC–228 BC
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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>99% boys
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