Boy · Greek
Dimitrios
Say it: dhee-MEE-tree-os
Meaning
Greek Demetrios 'of Demeter', the goddess of grain.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 1970s
In the United States
- 2,508 babies given this name since 1949
- At its height in 1976, about 1 in 21,500 boys
- 20 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- Ancient Greece800 BC to 146 BC
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Dimitris, Mitsos, Takis
| Latin | Demetrius |
|---|---|
| Romanian | Dumitru |
Famous bearers
- Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki
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Where this comes from
- Ancient Greek literature and history (Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch and others)
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.