girls:
99 births since 1955
#5617 (2nd percentile)
boys:
9.2k births since 1917
#1231 (73rd percentile)
overall:
9.3k births since 1917
#2794 (64th percentile)
The name Dimitri is the #2,794 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,268 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 63.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,231 (73.2% percentile) for all time with 9,169 births since 1917. For girls, it ranks #5,617 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 99 births since 1955.
Dimitri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1955 for girls). Birth data for Dimitri is available in 94 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (94 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dimitri has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Dimitri reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 41.9% percentile (ranked #448) with 191 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 191 births per million (ranked 41.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Dimitri ranks #715 for boys (21.5% percentile) with 110 births per million, which is 57.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Dimitri reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #777) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dimitri".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Dimitri is pronounced as dih-MEE-tree, which has 3 syllables.
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