Dima
In Russian and Ukrainian, Dima is the everyday short form of Dmitri, the name a Dmitri answers to among friends. In Poland it stays rare: most people here have never met one, and it carries no name-day of its own.
Dima Pronunciation
Dima is pronounced DEE-mah (/ˈdima/).
What Dima means
Where Dima comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dima comes into Polish ears as a Slavic name, the everyday short form Russians and Ukrainians use for Dmitri and Dmytro. Those fuller names trace back to the Greek Demetrios, and that is where the meaning "devoted to Demeter" sits, Demeter being the Greek goddess of grain and harvest. The sense of devotion attached to the name long before anyone shortened it to Dima.
In Russia and Ukraine, Dima is what a Dmitri answers to among friends. On a class register it might read as the full name, but nobody in the room says anything but Dima.
There is a second Dima, an Arabic name for girls, unrelated in root, closer to the sense of steady rain. The two share four letters. Nothing older links them. For a Polish family the name arrives without a name-day of its own, and it stays close to its Slavic parent, Dmitri.
How many people are named Dima
1 in 137717 men in Poland is named Dima. 175 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2404 among male names.
Dima's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Dima as a middle name
Dima is a first name for 175 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 97/3 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4206th, between Devrim (6) and Dimitr (6).
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#4204 Dermot6
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#4205 Devrim6
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#4206 Dima6
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#4207 Dimitr6
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#4208 Djamel6