Given name & surname

Demis

Demis is a masculine given name from Greek.

Original GreekΔέμης

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Demis comes from Greek.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Demis through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1979
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0123198020002025Highest share 19790.0
Demis in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1979–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 213 as a first name in 2020; 213 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.

Demis’s family of names

In Romanian usage, Demis has a conventional equivalent in the English form Demetrius. In Greek usage, Demis as a surname is a transliteration of Δέμης.

Walk Demis’s family in the name graph

DemisDemišΔέμηςDemmisDemetrius

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Demis

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Appears in

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