Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Dmitriy isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dmitriy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 578
- 578 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,126 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −31%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,126 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 31.2% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 33 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,575 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.
Dmitriy’s family of names
In English usage, Dmitriy has a related form in Dmitry. In English usage, Dmitriy has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Дмитрий.
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 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dmitriy
- Dmitriy KarpovKazakhstani decathleteborn 1981
- Dmitriy BalandinKazakhstan swimmerborn 1995
- Dmitriy GruzdevKazakh bicycle racerborn 1986
- Dmitriy GaagKazakhstani triathleteborn 1971
- Dmitriy AlexaninKazakhstani fencerborn 1991
- Dmitriy ReiherdKazakh freestyle skierborn 1989
- Dmitriy RozinkevichRussian rowerborn 1974
- Dmitriy ShokinUzbekistani taekwondo practitionerborn 1992
- Dmitriy LankinRussian artistic gymnastborn 1997
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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