Given name & surname
Dimitrije
Dimitrije is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dimitrije through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 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 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dimitrije’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Dimitrije has a conventional equivalent in the German form Demetrius. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Dimitrije was borrowed from the Ancient Greek form Δημήτριος.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dimitrije
- Dimitrije LjotićSerbian fascist politician (1891-1945)
- Dimitrije TucovićSerbian politician (1881-1914)
- Dimitrije Davidovićdiplomat and journalist (1789-1838)
- Dimitrije, Serbian PatriarchPatriarch of Serbia (1846–1930)
- Dimitrije KamenovićSerbian footballerborn 2000
- Dimitrije Cincar-MarkovićSerbian military leader and politician (1849–1903)
- Dimitrije InjacSerbian footballer (born 1980)
- Dimitrije MitrinovićSerbian writer (1887–1953)
- Dimitrije AvramovićSerbian artist (1815-1855)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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