Demosthene

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dɛmɒsθin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Demosthene is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 682K(measured from records)
  • HTHaiti≈1 in 5.2K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 484K

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.

Haiti (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,100 people, est.

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Haiti, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Demosthene 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.

Where Demosthene is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HT Haiti#723≈2,100 est.≈1 in 5.2KlistedDemosthene6
US United States—4881 in 682K579Demosthene116
FR France—≈72 est.≈1 in 937K20——
BR Brazil—661 in 3.2M66——
MA Morocco—≈47 est.≈1 in 762K—Demosthene3
JM Jamaica—≈6 est.≈1 in 484K—Demosthene1

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Demosthene is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Demosthène, Demosthéne, Démosthène, Demósthene

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Démosthene, Démosthène, Demósthene

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Démosthène, Démosthéne, Dēmosthenē

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Demosthene 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 Latin, ablative singular of Dēmosthenēs

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Mr Demosthene,
InformalHi Demosthene,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

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

How do you pronounce Demosthene?
A machine transcription gives /dɛmɒsθin/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Demosthene have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Demosthene in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demosthene.
How common is the name Demosthene?
In the United States, the national register counted 488 people named Demosthene in 2010, about 1 in 682 thousand residents.
How common is Demosthene compared with other names?
In Haiti, Demosthene is the 723rd most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Demosthene” — the 723rd most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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