# Dimitar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dimitar/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 40 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 40 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 202, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 6 | 9,906 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,293 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,031 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,102 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12,623 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,116 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,128 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 14 | 1,617 |
| 2014 | 12 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2016 | 13 | 1,804 |
| 2017 | 20 | 1,289 |
| 2018 | 23 | 1,158 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 17 | 1,431 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 12 | 1,879 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,701 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3,688 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## People named Dimitar

- Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
- Dimitar Penev, Bulgarian footballer (1945-2026)
- Dimitar Blagoev, Bulgarian politician (1856–1924)
- Dimitar Glavchev, Bulgarian politician
- Dimitar Rangelov, Bulgarian footballer
- Dimitar Iliev Popov, Bulgarian politician (1927-2015)
- Dimitar Dimov, Bulgarian dramatist, novelist and veterinarian (1909-1966)
- Dimitar Ivankov, Bulgarian footballer
- Dimitar Yakimov, Bulgarian footballer
- Dimitar Largov, Bulgarian footballer (1936-2020)
- Dimitar Grekov, Bulgarian politician (1847-1901)
- Dimitar Petkov, Bulgarian politician (1858-1907)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.