Demetris
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ðiˈmitɾis/(recorded in a dictionary) Greek · from Wiktionary · read from δημήτρης
Demetris is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name. Demetris is also written Δημήτρης in Greek and Деметрис in Cyrillic.
- CACanada≈1 in 370K(inferred from the name graph)
- GRGreece≈1 in 64as Dimitris
- CYCyprus1 in 125as Δημητρης
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Demetris itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 373K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Dimitris, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Demetris in other scripts: Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dimitris in GR Greece, CY Cyprus, DE Germany and 1 more, Demetri in BR Brazil and Dimitri in CA Canada.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Demetris
- Greek:/ðiˈmitɾis/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Demetris 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #14 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 64 | 640K | Dimitris | 197 |
| CY Cyprus | #33 | 10,115as Δημητρης | 1 in 125 | 10K | Dimitris | 84 |
| US United States | — | 8,895as Dimitri | 1 in 37K | 8.7K | Demetris | 288 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,630as Dimitri | 1 in 81K | 2.6K | Demetri | 25 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Dimitris | 91 |
| FI Finland | — | 720as Dimitri | 1 in 7.7K | 1.1K | — | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 386as Dimitri | 1 in 26K | 386 | Dimitris | 35 |
| MD Moldova | — | 216as Dimitri | 1 in 16K | 216 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 373K | 3 | Dimitri | 61 |
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: According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Demetris Daskalakisb. 1977CYCypriot footballer
- Demetris Nicholsb. 1984USAmerican basketball player (born 1984)
- Demetris LamnisosGBPh.D. University of Warwick 2010
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Demetris?
- In Greek /ðiˈmitɾis/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Demetris a male or female name?
- Demetris is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Demetris?
- Mondonomo estimates about 163 thousand people named Dimitris in Greece, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Cyprus, United States, Brazil and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Demetris?
- In Cyprus, the national register counted 10,115 people named Δημητρης in 2011, about 1 in 125 residents.
- How common is Demetris compared with other names?
- In Greece, Demetris is the 14th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/demetrisThe 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, “Demetris” — ranked 3rd in Greece (According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.