Dimitrios

Where Dimitrios comes from

Dimitrios hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1867
    Dimitrios Gounaris born
    Greek politician
  2. 1872
    Dimitrios Kasdaglis born
    British tennis player of Greek origin, resident in Egypt
  3. 1949
    First appearance
    #3,690 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1976
    Peak, #957
    76 babies named Dimitrios — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,462.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dimitrios Kasdaglis · British tennis player of Greek origin, resident in Egypt, 1872–1931
  • Dimitrios Gounaris · Greek politician, 1867–1922
  • Dimitrios Pandermalis · Greek archaeologist, 1940–2022
  • Dimitrios Roussopoulos · Canadian activist, born 1936
  • Dimitrios A. Koromelas · Greek journalist and playwright, 1850–1898

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.