Demers
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: variant of Deamer , with post-medieval excrescent -s
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdimɝz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Demers is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
- USUnited States1 in 36K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 378 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Deamer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Demers is read(measured from records)
Demers is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English83%
variant of Deamer , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- French6.4%
altération de Dumets, de du Metz («de Le Metz»), nom de plusieurs localités du nord de la France
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Demers 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Demers | 4 |
| US United States | — | 9,225 | 1 in 36K | 9.2K | Demers | 378 |
| CA Canada | #545 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Demers | 229 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Demers | 59 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 132K | listed | Demers | 35 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Demers | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Demers | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Demers | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-5 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)
Demers 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, step, action towards a goal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, DEMÉRS, demersuri, s. n. Acțiune întreprinsă (pe lângă cineva) în susținerea unei cauze; intervenție în scopul obținerii unui anumit rezultat.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louis Philippe Demersb. 1863CACanadian politician (1863–1951)
- Rock Demersb. 1933CACanadian film producer (1933–2021)
- Jacques Demersb. 1944CACanadian politician and hockey coach
- Dominique Demersb. 1956CACanadian novelist
- Jacques Demersb. 1960CACanadian weightlifter
- Stéphane Demersb. 1966CACanadian actor
- Patrick Demersb. 1969CACanadian film director
- John Demersb. 1971USAmerican government employee
- Charles Demersb. 1980CACanadian writer, comedian and political activist
- Jason Demersb. 1988CACanadian ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.2K | #3,839 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9K | #3,624 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.9K | #3,889 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Demers mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Deamer , with post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Demers?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdimɝz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Demers have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Demers in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demers.
- How common is the name Demers?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,225 people named Demers in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Demers compared with other names?
- In Canada, Demers is the 545th most common surname of 699,524 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Demers?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/demersThe 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, “Demers” — the 545th most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.