Dumitru

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Думитру in RU Russia, FI Finland, LV Latvia and 2 more and Думітру 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 11 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◐

Dumitru is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name29K records spelled Dumitru3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Romania, United States, Portugal

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Dumiţru

48 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●

Dumitru 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.

• Romanian form of DMITRI .

  as a word

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●

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●

• Demetre Chiparusb. 1886ROnot in their usual nameRomanian Art Deco era sculptor (1886–1947)
• Dumitru Stăniloaeb. 1903ROOrthodox Christian theologian (1903-1993)
• Dumitru Pârvulescub. 1933ROOlympic wrestler (1933–2007)
• Dumitru Mazilub. 1934RORomanian politician
• Dumitru Prunariub. 1952RORomanian astronaut
• Dumitru Diacovb. 1952MDMoldovan politician
• Dumitru Morarub. 1956RORomanian footballer
• Dumitru Braghișb. 1957MDMoldovan politician and economist
• Dumitru Stângaciub. 1964RORomanian footballer
• Dumitru Răducanub. 1967RORomanian rower

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 · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dumitru?

We estimate roughly 41 thousand people bear Dumitru (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Dumitru have the most bearers?

We estimate about 36 thousand people bear Dumitru in Moldova, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dumitru.

Where is Dumitru most common?

Dumitru is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 95 people carrying it.

How common is Dumitru compared with other names?

In Moldova, Dumitru is the 22nd most common given name of 2,579 given names recorded there.

Is Dumitru a male or female name?

Dumitru 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.