Dimas
Dimas was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,897 among boys’ names; 1,834 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Dimas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 16 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dimas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dimas mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Dimas is “a male given name, equivalent to English Dysmas” Its etymology gives the sense “to the west” (Δυσμάς).
From Greek Δυσμάς (Dysmás, “to the west”).
/ˈdimas/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dimas?
#4,897 among boys’ names, 2025
Dimas fell from #4,199 in 2015 to #4,897 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 11.7 per million.
41 babies in 1996, the peak
Dimas peaked in 1996, when 41 boys were given it, #2,076 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,897 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,226 | 14.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,734 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,461 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,594 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 29 | #3,666 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 31 | #3,585 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,725 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,249 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,125 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,199 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,472 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,448 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,393 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,623 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,719 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,354 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 37 | #3,119 | 18.1 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,040 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,460 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,087 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,898 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,297 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,957 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,076 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,751 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,953 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,875 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,137 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,076 | 21.6 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,941 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,704 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 27 | #2,646 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,685 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,416 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,383 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,492 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,096 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,412 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,017 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,185 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,136 | 7.8 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,294 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,355 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 20 | #2,433 | 11.2 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,560 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,061 | 14.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,106 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,816 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,534 | 10.8 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,113 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,636 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,532 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,015 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,479 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,143 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,340 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,224 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,986 | 9.2 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,912 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 24 | #1,599 | 12.9 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,236 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,115 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,057 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,434 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 12 | #2,454 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,449 | 5.6 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,116 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,212 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,299 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,464 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,344 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,211 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,279 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,137 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,104 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,147 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,071 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,403 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,898 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,084 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,686 | 5.9 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,003 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,627 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,939 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,200 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,257 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,235 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,950 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,287 | 10.6 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,504 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,135 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,439 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,541 | 6.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,365 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,804 | 9.1 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,313 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,131 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dimas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dimas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dimas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dimas, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,834 Americans ever recorded as Dimas. The median Dimas alive today is 29 years old; half are between 16 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 3,415 people named Dimas (53 women and girls, 3,362 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,495 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 145 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 224 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 474 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 336 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dimas born?
The states with the most babies named Dimas are Texas, California and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 514 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| California | 211 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Dimas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dimas is most over-represented in Texas: since 1917 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dimas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dimas
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dimas and names like it
- Compare Dimas and SilvanoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDimas peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dimas since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Dimas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Dimas.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dimas alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.