Dmitry
Dmitry was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,205 among boys’ names; 623 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dmitry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dmitry mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dmitry is “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij).” Its etymology gives the senses “Demeter” (Δημήτηρ) and “pertaining to” (-ιος).
From Russian Дми́трий (Dmítrij), from Byzantine Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios), from Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr, “Demeter”) + -ιος (-ios, “pertaining to”). Doublet of Demetrius, Dimitri, and Dimitris.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dmitry?
#6,205 among boys’ names, 2025
Dmitry fell from #3,170 in 2015 to #6,205 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 8.2 per million.
36 babies in 2013, the peak
Dmitry peaked in 2013, when 36 boys were given it, #3,068 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,205 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,494 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,511 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,462 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,814 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,741 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,837 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,834 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,905 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,613 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 36 | #3,170 | 18.8 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,475 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,068 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,083 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,183 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,555 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,494 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,305 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,052 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,389 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,876 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,843 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,335 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,843 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,192 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,008 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,674 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,727 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,869 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,872 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,863 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,122 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,869 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dmitry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dmitry has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dmitry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dmitry, and how old are they?
An estimated 615 Americans named Dmitry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,679 people named Dmitry (6 women and girls, 4,673 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9.1 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,867 babies since 1880, Dmitry is the third most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 258 babies (5.4%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dmitry
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 Dmitry and names like it
- Compare Dmitry and DimitriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDmitry peaked in 2013.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dmitry since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Dmitry.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dmitry alive today were born 2013-2025.
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