Dmytrii
A Ukrainian name from the Greek for "belonging to Demeter", the earth goddess. It stays rare in Poland: fewer than a thousand men carry it, all of them male, and most Poles have never met one.
Dmytrii Pronunciation
Dmytrii is pronounced DMIHTR-yee (/ˈdmɨtrji/).
What Dmytrii means
Where Dmytrii comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dmytrii comes from the Greek Demetrios, a name built on Demeter, the goddess of grain and the harvest. Its plain sense is "belonging to Demeter." The Ukrainian ear reshaped the older Greek into something of its own, and the Polish variant Dymitr sits close by, a letter or two apart.
The name traveled through the Orthodox world long before it reached Ukrainian record books. Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a soldier and martyr, carried it into the calendar, and generations of eastern Christians took it after him. A boy called Dmytrii inherits that lineage whether or not anyone tells him.
Say it at a Polish urząd today and a clerk may reach for the more familiar Dymitr. The two forms answer to each other. One keeps the Ukrainian spelling with its double i, the other the older Polish shape.
The meaning stays fixed under all of it. Dmytrii belongs to Demeter, and behind the goddess stands the earth.
How many people are named Dmytrii
1 in 25352 men in Poland is named Dmytrii. 842 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1031 among male names.
Dmytrii's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.