Dimitar
From the Greek Demetrios: someone devoted to Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest. In Poland the name stays rare, one most Poles have never met, and its Balkan form runs behind the home-grown Dymitr.
Dimitar Pronunciation
Dimitar is pronounced dee-MEE-tahr (/diˈmitar/).
What Dimitar means
Where Dimitar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dimitar comes from Greek. It grows from Demetrios, the name for someone bound to Demeter, the goddess of grain and the harvest. The short meaning keeps that link: devoted to Demeter.
In Polish paperwork the name more often takes the form Dymitr, its close variant. Dimitar holds the southern, Balkan shape of the same root, the one carried by Bulgarian, Serbian, and Macedonian families. The tie to Demeter is old.
The best documented bearer is Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a martyr venerated across the Orthodox and Slavic world. His feast falls on 26 October. Through his cult the Greek Demetrios traveled north and settled into local speech as Dimitar. On a Polish class register the name would stand a step from its cousin Dymitr.
How many people are named Dimitar
1 in 117935 men in Poland is named Dimitar. 181 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2362 among male names.
Dimitar as a middle name
Dimitar is a first name for 181 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5309th, between Diar (4) and Dimo (4).
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#5307 Devran4
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#5308 Diar4
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#5309 Dimitar4
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#5310 Dimo4
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#5311 Din4