Dimitrios
From the Greek Dēmētrios: a child devoted to Demeter, goddess of grain and harvest. In Poland the name settled as Dymitr, so this full Greek form stays rare: fewer than 300 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Dimitrios Pronunciation
Dimitrios is pronounced dee-MEETR-yos (/diˈmitrjɔs/).
What Dimitrios means
Where Dimitrios comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dimitrios comes from Greek, from Dēmētrios, formed on the name of Demeter, the goddess of grain and the harvest. The old sense is "devoted to Demeter," a person placed under her care. Demeter herself ruled over the fields, so the name once tied a child to the earth that fed a household.
The name traveled. In Poland it settled into the variant Dymitr, dropping the Greek ending and taking on a firmer Slavic shape. False Dmitrys and real ones fill the history of the region, and the form Dymitr still turns up on an old parish list or in a school register beside more familiar Polish names.
Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a soldier and martyr honored across the Orthodox world, kept the name alive for centuries and gave it a name-day of its own. Few carriers today think of the goddess when they sign a form at the urząd. The meaning sits underneath anyway. Dimitrios still means a child given to Demeter, keeper of the grain.
How many people are named Dimitrios
1 in 74899 men in Poland is named Dimitrios. 285 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1797 among male names.
Dimitrios's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Dimitrios as a middle name
Dimitrios is a first name for 285 men in Poland and a middle name for another 25, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1709th, between Dev (25) and Dustin (25).
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#1707 Deonizy25
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#1708 Dev25
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#1709 Dimitrios25
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#1710 Dustin25
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#1711 Eliyahu25