Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dmytro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 32
- 32 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,010 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,010 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,956 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.
Dmytro’s family of names
In English usage, Dmytro shares an earlier linguistic root with Demetrius. In English usage, Dmytro has a conventional equivalent in the Belarusian form Дзмітрый. In English usage, Dmytro shares an earlier linguistic root with DIMITRIS.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dmytro has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Demetriusdoublet · English
- Demetriequivalent
- Dmitryequivalent
- Dimitrisdoublet · English
- Димитрійequivalent
- Dymytriiequivalent
- Dzmitryequivalent
- Dymitrequivalent
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People named Dmytro
- Dmytro KulebaUkrainian diplomat and politician (born 1981)
- Dmytro ChyhrynskyiUkrainian association football playerborn 1986
- Dmytro YaroshUkrainian political activist, public figureborn 1971
- Dmitri Ivanenkophysicist1904–1994
- Dmytro PavlychkoUkrainian writer, diplomat and dissident1929–2023
- Dmytro RazumkovUkrainian politicianborn 1983
- Dmitry ManuilskySoviet politician (1883–1959)
- Dmitry GordonUkrainian journalist and writerborn 1967
- Dmytro DontsovUkrainian nationalist writer, publisher, journalist and political thinker (1883–1973)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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