Demitri
Masculine · “devoted to Demeter”
Demitri is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 2,137 boys against 23 girls since 1880.
Demitri is a spelling of Dmitri, the Slavic form of Demetrius — a Greek name meaning devoted to Demeter, the goddess of grain and the harvest.
How old is the name Demitri?
Demitri first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Demitri alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 2,100 people named Demitri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Demitri most popular?
Demitri peaked in 1992, reaching #1289 nationally. Today it ranks #3450, 2,161 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Demetrios to Demitri
The story of Demitri
Demetrios was a common Greek name and became a Christian one through several early saints, above all a martyr of Thessaloniki whose cult spread across the Orthodox world. Slavic languages took it as Dmitri, Dimitar and Dumitru, and it became one of the standard Russian men's names. American records show Dmitri, Dimitri and Demitri, the last putting a vowel where Russian has none to make the name easier for English readers.
Meaning
devoted to Demeter
From Greek Demetrios, formed on Demeter, the goddess of grain; her own name is generally read as containing the word for mother, though the first element is disputed.
How the name formed
- Demetrios
- Dmitri
- Demitri
Related forms: Dmitri · Dimitrios · Dimitar · Dumitru
Pronouncing Demitri
duh-MEE-tree
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Russian Dmitri has no vowel in the first syllable, DMEE-tree.
Nicknames for Demitri
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1964
- Most boys named
- 200178 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1289reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- +13.8%33 in 2025, from 29
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Demitri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dmitri in Russian — spelling variant
- Dimitrios in Greek — same name
- Dimitar in Bulgarian — same name
- Dumitru in Romanian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Ohio.
Demitris among us
people named Demitri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 51,760 born in 2025 was named Demitri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Latroy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Demitri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Latroy climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Latroy's path sketches the road Demitri is walking now.
Demitri sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Demitri is headed
Demitri should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Demitri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Demitri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a documented record reaching back to classical Greece.
- Dima and Demi are both ready short forms, in two languages.
- The added vowel makes the name genuinely easier for English speakers than Dmitri.
- Dmitri and Dimitri are both more standard and will be written for him.
- The Russian original has no vowel where this spelling puts one, which purists will note.
- Demi is now widely read as a women's name in English.
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Frequently asked
- How many Demitris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Demitri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Demitri in 2025?
- Demitri ranks #3450 among US boy names in 2025, with 33 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Demitri?
- About 1 in every 51,760 US boys born in 2025 was named Demitri — 33 in all.
- Will my child share the name Demitri with classmates?
- Demitri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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