Demara
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/dɛmɑɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Demara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Spanish Demara, possibly a habitational surname from a place in Aragon. * Altered form of French Desmarais.
- USUnited States1 in 624K(measured from records)
- AOAngola≈1 in 130K
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 131K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
≈830 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Spanish Demara, possibly a habitational surname from a place in Aragon. * Altered form of French Desmarais.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Demara counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Demara is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, to start
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, DEMARÁ, demarez, vb. I. 1. Intranz. (Despre autovehicule, motoare etc.) A se pune în mișcare, a porni. 2. Tranz. A dezlega odgoanele unei corăbii (în vederea plecării). 3. Intranz. Fig. (Sport) A-și lua avânt, a porni în viteză (într-o cursă).
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 566 | #41,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 533 | #40,909 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 499 | #41,203 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Demara mean, and where does it come from?
- Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Spanish Demara, possibly a habitational surname from a place in Aragon. * Altered form of French Desmarais. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Demara?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛmɑɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Demara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 828 people named Demara in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demara.
- How common is the name Demara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 533 people named Demara in 2010, about 1 in 624 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/demaraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Demara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.