Given name & surname
Dimitrie
Dimitrie is a masculine given name from Old Church Slavonic. It is used in Romanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dimitrie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 18 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 8 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 5 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 116 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.
Dimitrie’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Dimitrie has a conventional equivalent in the English form Demetrius. In Romanian usage, Dimitrie has a conventional equivalent in the English form Dmitry. In Romanian usage, Dimitrie has a conventional equivalent in the English form DZMITRY.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dimitrie
- Dimitrie CantemirPrince of Moldavia1673–1723
- Dimitrie SturdzaPrime Minister of Romania (1833-1914)
- Dimitrie GhicaRomanian politician (1816-1897)
- Dumitru BrătianuRomanian politician (1818–1892)
- Dimitrie PopescuRomanian rower (1961–2023)
- Dimitrie BrândzăRomanian botanist (1846-1895)
- Dimitrie PompeiuRomanian mathematician (1873-1954)
- Dimitrie BolintineanuRomanian writer1819–1872
- Dimitrie CuclinRomanian composer and philosopher (1885-1978)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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