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Dimitra

#12,238 in 2025Girls' name

Mother, through Δήμητρα

Dimitra has been given to 898 babies in the U.S. since 1923. In 2025 it ranked #12,238 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1977, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Dimitra, 2025

1 in 474,000

Dimitra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dimitra: meaning, origin, and history

Mother, through Δήμητρα

Latin

What Dimitra means

Dimitra belongs to the name family reached through Dimitra → Δήμητρα → Δημήτηρ. Its meaning is “mother”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Greek Δήμητρα (Dímitra), a female given name used in modern Greece.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Dimitra (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Dimitra is used in English and Sicilian. Its origins include Latin.

Dimitra comes through Greek Δήμητρα.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Δήμητρα and Δημήτηρ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sicilian, Dimitra is pronounced /diˈmi.ʈɽa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 898 girls were recorded with the name Dimitra between 1923 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,243 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,363 in 2020 to #12,238 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,145 in 2015 to #12,238 in 2025.

How common is Dimitra?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,238
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dimitra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dimitra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dimitras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dimitra was born before 1984 — so the typical Dimitra is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
888
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1970s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (261).

Is Dimitra 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
−3,660
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−875
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,093
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.5%
Peak was 1977 (40)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,243
1975

Spellings of Dimitra

Dimitra is not the most common spelling — Demetra is, with 41.4% against Dimitra's 8.8%.

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.

Where Dimitra is used

Across 1910–2025, Dimitra was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 238,361 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dimitra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dimitra around the world

Where Dimitra 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
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–1979
    #2,974
    in 1979
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1954–2012
    #563
    in 2012

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.

Dimitra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,238
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 875
Best rank ever
#2,243
1975
Peak year
1977
40 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
898
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Dimitra

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

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Sibling names for Dimitra

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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