Dmitro
A Ukrainian name with Slavic roots, meaning "belonging to Demeter". In Poland it stays rare: around 470 people carry it, and almost all of them are men.
Dmitro Pronunciation
Dmitro is pronounced DMEET-ro (/ˈdmitrɔ/).
What Dmitro means
Where Dmitro comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dmitro grows from Slavic soil, the Ukrainian shape of a name that means "belonging to Demeter." Demeter was the Greek goddess of grain and harvest, so the sense of the name reaches back to fields and their keeping. Slavic speech smoothed the older sound into something a Ukrainian ear knows at once.
Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a soldier and martyr, gave the name its church footing, and his feast falls on October 26. In Ukrainian tradition that autumn date, near the close of harvest, sits close to the very idea the name holds.
There are no diminutives listed here, no softened by-forms. Dmitro stands as it is. On an official form at the urząd, the name reads plainly, two syllables of Slavic make. Its meaning stays simple: belonging to Demeter, keeper of grain.
How many people are named Dmitro
1 in 45612 men in Poland is named Dmitro. 470 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1367 among male names.
Dmitro's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.