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Dimitrije

Boys' name

English equivalent of Demetrius

Dimitrije has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 2017. 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 2017, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Dimitrije, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dimitrije: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Demetrius

Greek

What Dimitrije means

Dimitrije is a English equivalent of Demetrius.

Origin, language, and formation

Dimitrije is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Greek.

Dimitrije comes through Ancient Greek Δημήτριος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Demetrius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Dimitrije is pronounced /dimǐtrije/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Dimitrije between 2017 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2017; its best national rank was #12,524 in 2020.

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 Dimitrije?

Dimitrije had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dimitrije 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dimitrije. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dimitrijes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dimitrije was born before 2020 — so the typical Dimitrije is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Dimitrije 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 2017 (5)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#12,524
2020

Spellings of Dimitrije

Dimitrije is not the most common spelling — Dimitri is, with 69.6% against Dimitrije's 0.11%.

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.

Dimitrije around the world

Where Dimitrije 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
    2006–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • France
    2007–2024
    #3,329
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2001–2005
    #643
    in 2005

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.

Dimitrije 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
—
Best rank ever
#12,524
2020
Peak year
2017
5 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dimitrije

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

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Sibling names for Dimitrije

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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