Entry № 2411 · Greek origin

Demetria Demetria — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ deh-MEE-tree-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Earth-mother (Demi Lovato's birth name; Demetria McKinney)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "earth-mother (demi lovato's birth name; demetria mckinney)".

Demetria is the feminine of Demetrius — from the Greek Dēmḗtēr (the goddess of grain, harvest, and the cycle of life and death). Demetria Devonne Lovato (born 1992) — birth name of Demi Lovato, the American singer-songwriter and actress; six-time Grammy nominee; Disney's Camp Rock (2008, 2010); discography includes the Billboard 200 #1 albums Confident (2015) and Tell Me You Love Me (2017); has been outspoken about mental health, substance abuse recovery, and identity. Demetria Hopkins — American actress. Demetria of Bithynia — Byzantine empress. The name's namesake goddess Demeter is one of the Twelve Olympians and the central figure of the Eleusinian Mysteries — the most-celebrated mystery religion of the ancient Greco-Roman world.

Earth-mother. Demi Lovato's birth name is Demetria; Demetria McKinney on Tyler Perry's House of Payne.

The name in its native script.

Δημητρία
Transliteration
Dēmētría
Pronunciation
/ dəˈmiː.tri.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Demetria stands.

Demetria does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Demetrias before her.

Real people
Demi (Demetria) Lovato
American Grammy-nominated singer.
born 1992
Demetria McKinney
American actress.
born 1979
In fiction
Demeter
Greek goddess of harvest.

Names connected to Demetria.

The number behind Demetria.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Demetria reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.