Dmitri

given name · Estonian · Latin script

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

Dmitri is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij), equivalent to Demetrius.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus1 in 46◐
  • RURussia1 in 55
  • UAUkraine1 in 91

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

≈148K ●

across 11 countries

#56 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
345 ●

11M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 154 ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

ДмитрийCyrillic · Russian●20M records
DimitriLatin · French●263K records
ᲓიმიტრიGeorgian · Georgian●19K records
มดิศรThai · Thai●180 records
ԴմիտրիArmenian · Armenian●8 records
ΝτμίτριGreek · Greek●8 records
드미트리Hangul · Korean●8 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Дмитрий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 7 more, Dmitry in US United States, ES Spain, DE Germany and 4 more, Dimitri in FR France, GE Georgia, BR Brazil and 3 more and Dmitrij in MD Moldova, CZ Czechia.

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●

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij), equivalent to Demetrius

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Dmitri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1318,928,6717.4M rec.—#12Дмитрий269
UA Ukraine#323,463,9653.4M rec.—listedДмитро118
TR Türkiye#393250,7922.2K rec.——Дмитрий21
BY Belarus#1093,66628K rec.—15Дмитрий107
KG Kyrgyzstan#4049,9257.9K rec.——Дмитрий25
FR France#35238,695110K rec.1 in 1.8K39KDimitri345
KZ Kazakhstan#1737,352110K rec.1 in 51137KДмитрий81
CN China—34,971194 rec.——Дмитрий25
UZ Uzbekistan#5528,2121.7K rec.——Дмитрий47
US United States—24,847126K rec.1 in 13K25KDmitry315
MD Moldova#25818,109△2.4K rec.1 in 18618KDmitrij48
EE Estonia#1217,8803.2K rec.—6.1KDmitri68

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

Languages●

  • Estonian20K28%
  • English16K22%
  • Russian9.1K13%
  • Finnish5.4K8%
  • Polish3.7K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian19,87828%
English15,85522%
Russian9,14013%
Finnish5,4418%
Polish3,7375%

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◐

Dmitri is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name7.2K records spelled Dmitri12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, France, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written D'Mitri, Dmítri, Dmìtrì

  • Hebrew given name41 records spelled Dmitri18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia

    Languages: Hebrew, Arabic

    Also written דמיטרי, דימיטרי, Dmitrii, דמיטרו, Dmitry

37 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●

Dmitri is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From Greek Démétrios ‘devotee of Demeter’. F

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In German, männl. Vom., Nebenform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Russian, var of Dmitrii.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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●

020406080196019802000202075 · 2015

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Dmitri in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1955–2025
Yearrecords
19558
195610
19599
196012
19617
19628
19638
19647
196516
196613
196710
19688
196916
197020
197117
197216
197316
197421
197512
197611
197715
197810
197915
198012
19819
198213
198319
198419
198518
198620
198718
198822
198926
199025
199136
199244
199350
199454
199554
199664
199762
199852
199946
200062
200169
200260
200362
200460
200566
200660
200748
200852
200956
201062
201154
201254
201343
201457
201575
201663
201751
201841
201940
202041
202138
202252
202344
202431
202533

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 69 years between 1955–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Dmitry Donskoy, b. 1350Dmitry Pozharsky, b. 1577Dimitrie Cantemir, b. 1674Dmitri Mendeleev, b. 1834Dmitri Kabalevsky, b. 1904Dmitry Muratov, b. 1961Dmitri Medvedev, b. 1965Dmitry Peskov, b. 1967Dmitri Sychev, b. 1983Nicholas Galitzine, b. 1994
  • Dmitry Donskoyb. 1350RUnot in their usual namePrince of Moscow
  • Dmitry Pozharskyb. 1577RUnot in their usual nameRurikid prince (1577-1642)
  • Dimitrie Cantemirb. 1674ROnot in their usual namePrince of Moldavia
  • Dmitri Mendeleevb. 1834RURussian chemist (1834–1907)
  • Dmitri Kabalevskyb. 1904RUSoviet-Russian composer (1904-1986)
  • Dmitry Muratovb. 1961RUnot in their usual nameRussian journalist and television presenter (born 1961)
  • Dmitri Medvedevb. 1965RUPresident of Russia from 2008 to 2012, Prime Minister of Russia (2012-2020) and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020
  • Dmitry Peskovb. 1967RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician and diplomat (born 1967)
  • Dmitri Sychevb. 1983RURussian footballer
  • Nicholas Galitzineb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (born 1994)

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 59 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Dmitri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—18K#68
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—6.1K#8
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—6.1K#8
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.3K#5,226
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.7K#1,150
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026934#503
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—842#515
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—346#3,214
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—272—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—176#5,712
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—159#10,832
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—140#5,552

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dmitri?
We estimate roughly 148 thousand people bear Dmitri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Dmitri have the most bearers?
Dmitri is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled дмитрий.
How common is Dmitri compared with other names?
In Russia, Dmitri is the 13th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Dmitri a male or female name?
Dmitri 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.
What does the name Dmitri mean?
Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij), equivalent to Demetrius
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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, “Dmitri” — the 13th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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