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Dimitar

Boys' name

English equivalent of Demetrius

Dimitar has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 2003. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Dimitar, 2018

1 in 586,000

Dimitar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dimitar: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Demetrius

Slavic languages and Greek

What Dimitar means

Dimitar is a English equivalent of Demetrius.

Origin, language, and formation

Dimitar is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Slavic languages and Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Demetrius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 boys were recorded with the name Dimitar between 2003 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2003; its best national rank was #9,899 in 2003.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dimitar?

Dimitar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dimitar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dimitar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dimitars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dimitar was born before 2010 — so the typical Dimitar is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.5% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Dimitar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (6)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,899
2003

Spellings of Dimitar

Dimitar is not the most common spelling — Dimitri is, with 94.0% against Dimitar's 0.39%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Dimitar around the world

Where Dimitar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #2,839
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2006
    #2,447
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1953–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dimitar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,899
2003
Peak year
2003
6 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dimitar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AlastarDimarioSamatarDimitreDimarcoKartarDimariDimaggioDimetriDimitricMukhtarDimanteDimonteDimitriyDimitryMouctarAlistarDimitrieDimaniDimirDiminicMuktarDimitrijeDimarcus

Sibling names for Dimitar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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