Given name & surname · also Latin
Demosthenes
Demosthenes is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Original LatinDēmosthenēs
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Demosthenes comes from Latin, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Demosthenes developed from Δημοσθένης.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Demosthenes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 63 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1923
- 8 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 boys is 6 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1923. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 239 as a first name in 2020; 328 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.
Demosthenes’s family of names
In English usage, Demosthenes developed from the Ancient Greek form Δημοσθένης. In English usage, Demosthenes has a conventional equivalent in the Romanian form DEMOSTENE. In English usage, Demosthenes has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Demóstenes.
The ring: across languages.
Around the world
Demosthenes has relatives in 10 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Demosthenes comes from · 1 name
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- DēmosthenēsLatin
- Δημοσθένηςroot · Ancient Greek, Greek
- DemóstenesSpanish
- Демосфе́нRussian
- DemosteneRomanian, Italian
- دموستنPersian
- دموستنسPersian
- DémosthèneFrench
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