Dimitry
Masculine · “Greek”
Three men claimed to be Dmitri of Uglich, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, who had died as a child in 1591. All three raised armies. One of them ruled Russia for eleven months. The Time of Troubles is the only period in European history with three simultaneous impostors of one name.
How old is the name Dimitry?
Dimitry first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Dimitry alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 600 people named Dimitry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dimitry most popular?
Dimitry peaked in 1996, reaching #3678 nationally. Today it ranks #8910, 5,232 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Demetrios to Dimitry
The story of Dimitry
Dmitri Ivanovich, the tsarevich, died at Uglich in 1591 at the age of eight, officially by accident during an epileptic fit. When his half-brother Fyodor died childless in 1598 the dynasty ended, and within a few years a man appeared in Poland claiming to be the surviving Dmitri. He gathered support, marched on Moscow, and was crowned in 1605; he was murdered eleven months later. A second false Dmitri appeared in 1607, established a rival court at Tushino and was killed in 1610. A third appeared in 1611. The episode gave Russian its word samozvanets, a self-caller, for a pretender, and gave the name Dmitri a permanent association with the question of who someone really is. Pushkin and Mussorgsky both built major works on it.
Meaning
Greek, of Demeter
Dimitry is a transliteration of Russian Dmitri, from Greek Demetrios, belonging to Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest. The i inserted between the D and the m reflects how English speakers say the name rather than how Russian writes it, since Russian permits the dm cluster at the start of a word and English does not. The American peak is 1996.
How the name formed
- Demetrios
- Dmitri
- Dimitry
Related forms: Dmitri · Dimitrios · Dmitry
Pronouncing Dimitry
duh-MEE-tree
Three syllables in this spelling, stress on the second. Russian says it in two, DMEE-tree, with a cluster English does not allow at the start of a word.
Nicknames for Dimitry
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
- 1972
- Most boys named
- 200925 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3678reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- +33.3%8 in 2025, from 6
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.
Dimitry in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Dmitri in Russian — transliteration
- Dimitrios in Greek — same name
- Dmitry in English — spelling variant
Dimitrys among us
people named Dimitry are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 213,510 born in 2025 was named Dimitry
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dimitry
- #8910
- Dimitry on the 2025 chart
- #726
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dimitry went to 8 boys in 2025, but Dimitri is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 203, which makes it the 726th most-given boys’ name of the year — 8,184 places above the chart.
- Dimitri195
- Dimitry8
About 1 boy in 8,414 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 213,510 for Dimitry itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Lily test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dimitry's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lily climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lily's path sketches the road Dimitry is walking now.
Dimitry 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
Dimitry beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dimitry in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Dima and Mitya are both established short forms.
- The inserted i makes the name sayable for English speakers.
- It has a documented history of two and a half thousand years.
- Several transliterations compete and none is standard.
- The Russian pronunciation has one syllable fewer.
- Dimitri with an i is the commoner English spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dimitrys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Dimitry are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dimitry?
- Dimitry is one of 2 recorded spellings. Dimitri is the more common one — 195 births in 2025 against 8 for Dimitry.
- How popular is the name Dimitry in 2025?
- Dimitry ranks #8910 among US boy names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dimitry?
- About 1 in every 213,510 US boys born in 2025 was named Dimitry — 8 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dimitry with classmates?
- Dimitry will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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