Dzimitry
A Slavic name meaning "follower of Demeter", close kin to the Polish Dymitr. It stays rare: most Poles will never meet one, and fewer children carry it now than in years past.
Dzimitry Pronunciation
Dzimitry is pronounced jee-MEET-rih (/d͡ʑiˈmitrɨ/).
What Dzimitry means
Where Dzimitry comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dzimitry is a Slavic name built on a Greek root. Behind it stands Demetrios, a follower of Demeter, the goddess of grain in the old Greek world. The short meaning in Polish keeps that link plain: należący do Demeter, one who belongs to her.
In Poland the name usually surfaces as Dymitr, its close variant. Both forms honour Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a soldier and martyr whose feast falls on 26 October. That date became the imieniny for boys carrying either spelling.
The tie to Demeter is old, and the men who bore the name rarely thought of a harvest goddess. It became a Christian name long ago. A boy named Dymitr on a Polish class register today shares his root with Demeter, keeper of the grain.
How many people are named Dzimitry
1 in 213462 men in Poland is named Dzimitry. 100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3449 among male names.