# Dimitri (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dimitri/  
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 | 9,693 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,594 / 99 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 357, 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | 6,601 |
| 1964 | 12 | 3,931 |
| 1965 | 7 | 5,425 |
| 1966 | 5 | 6,831 |
| 1967 | 6 | 6,213 |
| 1970 | 5 | 8,305 |
| 1971 | 7 | 6,775 |
| 1973 | 6 | 7,675 |
| 1982 | 5 | 10,925 |
| 1983 | 7 | 8,267 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,411 |
| 1989 | 7 | 9,982 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,755 |
| 1992 | 7 | 10,808 |
| 1994 | 5 | 14,046 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 198 | 987 |
| 2012 | 195 | 1,013 |
| 2013 | 186 | 1,035 |
| 2014 | 245 | 884 |
| 2015 | 240 | 905 |
| 2016 | 221 | 944 |
| 2017 | 237 | 905 |
| 2018 | 202 | 1,019 |
| 2019 | 210 | 998 |
| 2020 | 205 | 1,014 |
| 2021 | 221 | 992 |
| 2022 | 200 | 1,090 |
| 2023 | 201 | 1,075 |
| 2024 | 226 | 994 |
| 2025 | 195 | 1,101 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 1,522 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1,539 |
| 2014 | 13 | 1,721 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,673 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1,455 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,655 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,493 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Dimitri

- Dimitri Payet, French footballer (born 1987)
- Dimitri Petratos, Australian association football player
- Dimitri Foulquier, French footballer (born 1993)
- Dimitri Uznadze, Georgian philosopher
- Dimitri Peters, German judoka
- Dimitri Bascou, French hurdler
- Dimitri Diatchenko, American actor (1968–2020)
- Dimitri Arakishvili, Georgian composer and ethnomusicologist
- Dimitri Verhulst, Belgian writer
- Dimitri Claeys, Belgian road cyclist
- Dimitri Leonidas, British actor
- Dimitri Yachvili, French rugby union player

## 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.