Dimitar

given name · Bulgarian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dimitar is a given name, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria1 in 59◐
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 313
  • DEGermany1 in 54K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈128K ●

across 13 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
181 ●

49K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 59 ◐

Bulgaria

Spellings & scripts●

DimitarLatin · Bulgarian●1M records
ДимитърCyrillic · Bulgarian●771K records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Димитар in MK North Macedonia, FI Finland, NO Norway, Димитър in RU Russia, TR Türkiye, KZ Kazakhstan, Dimiter in SE Sweden, BR Brazil and Димитр in UA Ukraine.

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 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dimitar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#4118,316△32K rec.1 in 59118KDimitar179
MK North Macedonia#316,785△132 rec.1 in 3136.8KДимитар36
RU Russia—3,0502.2K rec.——Димитър75
GB United Kingdom—2,9981.5K rec.—listedDimitar85
DE Germany—2,2651.9K rec.—1Dimitar108
US United States—9917K rec.1 in 336K991Dimitar181
ES Spain—8521.5K rec.1 in 59K852Dimitar61
AU Australia—414367 rec.—1Dimitar55
CA Canada—371325 rec.—5Dimitar41
UA Ukraine—352433 rec.——Димитр10
AT Austria—319132 rec.—22Dimitar33
TR Türkiye—292130 rec.——Димитър7

Roughly 118K people in Bulgaria bear this name (about 1 in 59). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bulgarian1M88%
  • English128K11%
  • Spanish4.8K1%
  • German2.5K1%
  • French2.1K1%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bulgarian1,013,75588%
English127,58111%
Spanish4,7931%
German2,4851%
French2,0811%

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◐

Dimitar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name757 records spelled Dimitar7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Dimitär

  • Portuguese given name553 records spelled Dimitar2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, North Macedonia, United Kingdom

    Also written Dimităr

  • a separate given name445 records spelled Dimitar6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, North Macedonia, United Kingdom

    Also written Dimitâr, Dimităr, Dimitǎr, Dimitàr, Dimitär

  • Hindi given name325 records spelled Dimitar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, North Macedonia, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Dimítar

35 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.

Other recorded senses●

Dimitar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015020002005201020152020

Show as table
Dimitar in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199930
200030
200131
200233
200335
200436
200538
200639
200744
200857
200968
201069
201172
201277
201382
201495
2015103
2016108
2017114
2018115
2019115
2020123

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Dragan Tsankov, b. 1828Dimitar Petkov, b. 1858Dimitar Peshev, b. 1894Dimitar Popov, b. 1927Dimitar Dobrev, b. 1931Dimitar Penev, b. 1945Dimitar Kovačevski, b. 1974Dimitar Berbatov, b. 1981Dimitar Rangelov, b. 1983Dimitar Makriev, b. 1984

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●

Attested in 41 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Dimitar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020991#12,519
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—852#1,419
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—852#3,187
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—254#3,006
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—206#4,691
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026184#1,362
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—181#1,305
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—151#6,448
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—127#1,231
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020123—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019115—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—80#1,688

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 112 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dimitar?
We estimate roughly 128 thousand people bear Dimitar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Dimitar have the most bearers?
We estimate about 118 thousand people bear Dimitar in Bulgaria, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dimitar.
Where is Dimitar most common?
Dimitar is densest in Bulgaria, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 people carrying it.
How common is Dimitar compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Dimitar is the 4th most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.
Is Dimitar a male or female name?
Dimitar 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dimitar

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dimitar” — the 4th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Dimitar parses inside a full name →