Demi has two possible origins.
Today the name sits in the U.S. top 500 — Demi Lovato has carried it into pop music. Two simple syllables with a complex origin story.
Demi 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Demi reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.