Dimitra
Fewer than fifty women in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet a Dimitra. Greek at root, tied to the goddess Demeter: the name reads as "earth mother".
Dimitra Pronunciation
Dimitra is pronounced dee-MEET-rah (/diˈmitra/).
What Dimitra means
Where Dimitra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dimitra comes straight from Greek. It is the feminine of Dimitrios, and both go back to Demeter, the goddess of grain and the harvest. Her name pairs the earth with a word read as mother, which is why Dimitra is glossed as earth mother, the woman given to Demeter.
The tie to the goddess is old, and the Christian world kept the sound while changing the reason. Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki, a martyr honoured on 26 October, gave the name a feast day. Greek women called Dimitra keep their name day then.
In a Polish class register the name sits oddly beside Katarzyna and Anna. That is the point of it. Dimitra keeps the harvest goddess audible where a Polish ear expects Dymitr. The short meaning stays plain: earth mother, the one bound to Demeter.
How many people are named Dimitra
1 in 512360 women in Poland is named Dimitra. 44 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5774 among female names.
Dimitra as a middle name
Dimitra is a first name for 44 women in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1980th, between Dewi (14) and Doriana (14).
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#1978 Destiny14
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#1979 Dewi14
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#1980 Dimitra14
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#1981 Doriana14
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#1982 Elfrida14