Dmitri
A rare name in Poland: only about 840 men carry it, and no boys were given it last year. Greek at root, from a form meaning "devoted to Demeter," and worn in Poland as a Russian name.
Dmitri Pronunciation
Dmitri is pronounced DMEET-ree (/ˈdmitri/).
What Dmitri means
Where Dmitri comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dmitri comes from the Greek Demetrios, built on the name of Demeter, the goddess of grain and the harvest. The short meaning follows directly: devoted to Demeter. In Polish that reads należący do Demeter. A child given the name was tied, in the old sense, to the goddess who ruled the ripening fields.
From Greece the name moved north and settled deep in Russian ground. Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a soldier and martyr, earned it a place on the church calendar, and Russian princes claimed it. Dmitry Donskoy led armies. Two later figures fixed the name in the modern mind: Dmitri Mendeleev, who set out the periodic table of the elements, and Dmitri Shostakovich, who wrote symphonies under a watchful state.
On a Polish class register, Dmitri reads as clearly eastern, a sign of a Russian or mixed household. Behind those associations sits the Greek origin and its plain meaning: devoted to Demeter.
How many people are named Dmitri
1 in 25352 men in Poland is named Dmitri. 842 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1030 among male names.
Dmitri as a middle name
Dmitri is a first name for 842 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 100/0 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7532nd, between Divina (2) and Dobromil (2).
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#7530 Dither2
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#7531 Divina2
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#7532 Dmitri2
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#7533 Dobromil2
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#7534 Doctor2