Dymytrii
Just 113 men in Poland carry it, and most people here have never met one. It's a Ukrainian take on a Greek name that marks its bearer as a follower of the goddess Demeter.
Dymytrii Pronunciation
Dymytrii is pronounced dih-MIHTR-yee (/dɨˈmɨtrji/).
What Dymytrii means
Where Dymytrii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dymytrii reaches back to the Greek Dēmētrios, a name built from Demeter, the goddess of grain and the harvest. The short meaning holds to that root: follower of Demeter. A child called Dymytrii carries a Greek word into Ukrainian speech, where the name has settled among Orthodox congregations for centuries.
The link to Demeter was never a claim of worship. It marked a person as belonging to her domain, the fields and the ripening year. That older sense faded as the name moved north and east.
Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica gave the name its Christian weight, and his feast on 26 October anchors the imieniny for many who bear it. In Ukraine the form Dymytrii sits close to the everyday Dmytro. On a school register in Lviv the full Dymytrii would read as formal and exact.
The meaning stays legible after all this travel. Dymytrii still means follower of Demeter.
How many people are named Dymytrii
1 in 188904 men in Poland is named Dymytrii. 113 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3196 among male names.