Demian
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Damien, du grec Damianos; saint Damien le 26 septembre
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Demian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 10K
- USUnited States1 in 213K
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Damien, du grec Damianos; saint Damien le 26 septembre.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Demian 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #683 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | 303 | Demian | 106 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,815 | 1 in 21K | 1.8K | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 119 | Demian | 49 |
| US United States | — | 1,563 | 1 in 213K | 1.5K | Demian | 141 |
| MD Moldova | — | 430 | 1 in 7.8K | 430 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 7 | Demian | 11 |
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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Demian 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 German, männl. Vom., nach der russischen und ukrainischen Form Dem’jan von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, Demian Slin'ka, peasant. 1600.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Demian Mnohohrishnyb. 1621UAHetman of Ukrainian Cossacks
- Dam'i︠a︡n Horni︠a︡tkevychb. 1892PLnot in their usual namepainter
- Demyan Korotchenkob. 1894UAnot in their usual nameSoviet Ukrainian politician (1894-1969)
- Demyan Horbatyukb. 1941UAnot in their usual namedoctor (1941-2007)
- Demian Conradb. 1974CHSwiss designer
- Demian Fentonb. 1975American film editor
- Demian Maiab. 1977BRBrazilian mixed martial artist
- Demyan Hanulb. 1993UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian activist (1993–2025)
- Demian FuicaCLfilm director
- Demian Lichtensteinscreenwriter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 1.8K | #374 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,065 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 430 | #494 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 303 | #395 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 119 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 74 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 54 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 50 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 50 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 42 | #9,065 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Demian mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Damien, du grec Damianos; saint Damien le 26 septembre.
- Is Demian a male or female name?
- Demian is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Demian?
- In the etymology graph, Damian, Damon and Damion are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Demian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Demian in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demian.
- Where is Demian most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Demian is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Demian?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,815 people named Demian in 2026, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Demian compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Demian is the 683rd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Demian?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/demianThe 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, “Demian” — the 683rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.