Dmitri

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Дмитрий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Дмитро in UA Ukraine, Dimitri in FR France and Dmitrij in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Dmitri is read●(measured from records)

Dmitri is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English38%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Dmitri in English.

• Russian18%

  var of Dmitrii.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• Estonian14%

  A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij), equivalent to Demetrius

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German5.7%

  männl. Vom., Nebenform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dmitri, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Andrei
• Alexei
• Nikolai
• Ilya
• Maksim
• Lev
• Boris
• Mikhail
• Ivan
• Viktor
• Aleksandr
• Anton

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

Dmitri is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Spain, Moldova

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written D'Mitri, Dmítri, Dmìtrì

• Hebrew given name18 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia

  Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Maltese

  Also written דמיטרי, Dmitry, דימיטרי, Dmitrii, Dimitry

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●(measured from records)

Dmitri is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• From Greek Démétrios ‘devotee of Demeter’. F

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●(measured from records)

• Dmitry Donskoyb. 1350RUnot in their usual namePrince of Moscow
• Dmitry Pozharskyb. 1577RUnot in their usual nameRurikid prince (1577-1642)
• Dimitrie Cantemirb. 1674ROnot in their usual namePrince of Moldavia
• Dmitri Mendeleevb. 1834RURussian chemist (1834–1907)
• Dmitri Kabalevskyb. 1904RUSoviet-Russian composer (1904-1986)
• Dmitry Muratovb. 1961RUnot in their usual nameRussian journalist and television presenter (born 1961)
• Dmitri Medvedevb. 1965RUPresident of Russia from 2008 to 2012, Prime Minister of Russia (2012-2020) and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020
• Dmitry Peskovb. 1967RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician and diplomat (born 1967)
• Dmitri Sychevb. 1983RURussian footballer
• Nicholas Galitzineb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (born 1994)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dmitri mean?

In Russian, var of Dmitrii.

What are other forms of the name Dmitri?

In the etymology graph, Demetrio, Dimitri and Dmitry are forms of the same name in other languages; Dima is a recorded short or pet form.

How do you pronounce Dmitri?

A machine transcription gives /ˈdmitɹi/ (IPA) for English.

Where does the name Dmitri come from?

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij), equivalent to Demetrius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Is Dmitri a male or female name?

Dmitri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Dmitri have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 million people named Дмитрий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Dmitri most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dmitri is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 186 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Dmitri?

In Moldova, the national register counted 18,109 people named Dmitri, about 1 in 186 residents.

How common is Dmitri compared with other names?

In Russia, Dmitri is the 13th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.