Demostenes
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek Dēmosthénēs, 'strength of the people'
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/demostenes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Demostenes is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 310K
- PAPanama≈1 in 50K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
684 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Demóstenes in AO Angola.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Greek Dēmosthénēs, 'strength of the people'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Demostenes 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.
684 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Demostenes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, Demosthenes (Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 921 | #9,705 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 917 | #3,997 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 684 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 679 | #10,769 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 635 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 526 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 397 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 235 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 162 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 129 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 124 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 111 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Demostenes mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek Dēmosthénēs, 'strength of the people' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Demostenes?
- A machine transcription gives /demostenes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Demostenes a male or female name?
- Demostenes is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE).
- In which country does Demostenes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 684 people named Demostenes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demostenes.
- How common is the name Demostenes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 684 people named Demostenes in 2022, about 1 in 310 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Demostenes?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/demostenesThe 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, “Demostenes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.