Given name · also Slavic
Dimitar
Dimitar is a masculine given name from Slavic. It is used in English and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dimitar comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Slavic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dimitar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 40 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 992 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dimitar’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Dimitar was borrowed from the Ancient Greek form Δημήτριος. In Macedonian usage, Dimitar is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Димитар.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 20
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dimitar
- Dimitar BerbatovBulgarian footballerborn 1981
- Dimitar KovačevskiPrime Minister of North Macedonia from 2022 to 2024born 1974
- Dimitar PenevBulgarian footballer (1945-2026)
- Dimitar BlagoevBulgarian politician (1856–1924)
- Dimitar GlavchevBulgarian politicianborn 1963
- Dimitar RangelovBulgarian footballerborn 1983
- Dimitar Iliev PopovBulgarian politician (1927-2015)
- Dimitar DimovBulgarian dramatist, novelist and veterinarian (1909-1966)
- Dimitar IvankovBulgarian footballerborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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