Demetri

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Demetrio in BR Brazil, PE Peru, AR Argentina and 9 more, Dimitris in GR Greece, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Dimitri in CA Canada, BE Belgium, ZA South Africa and Demetris in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Demetri is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name1.1K records spelled Demetri2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Démétri

• French given name318 records spelled Demetri12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Gabon, Canada

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Demetrius, Demetrios, Démétrius, Démétrios, Démétri

• Arabic given name155 records spelled Demetri3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Démétŕi

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1953–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Demetri Corahorgib. 1880ITUnited States Navy Medal of Honor recipient (1880-1973)
• Demetri Goritsasb. 1953USAmerican actor
• Demetri Dollisb. 1956GRVictoria, Australian and Greek politician
• Demetri Martinb. 1973USAmerican comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist
• Demetri McCameyb. 1989USAmerican basketball player (born 1989)
• Demetri Goodsonb. 1989USAmerican football player
• Demetri Catrakilisb. 1989ZASouth African rugby union footballer
• Demetri Mitchellb. 1997GBEnglish association football player (born 1997)
• Demetri Terzopoulosb. 2000CADistinguished Professor of Computer Science at UCLA
• Demetri SevastopuloIEWashington bureau chief for the Financial Times

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 137 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Demetri?

We estimate roughly 86 thousand people bear Demetri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Demetri have the most bearers?

Demetri is most frequently recorded in Greece, where it is most often spelled dimitris.

How common is Demetri compared with other names?

In Greece, Demetri is the 10th most common given name of 23,464 given names recorded there.

Is Demetri a male or female name?

Demetri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.