Dimas vs Dimitri
American parents have registered 9,693 Dimitris since 1880, against 1,834 Dimases. Dimitri is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dimas Dimitri
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Dimitri for 85 years and Dimas for 18 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.
- 1917–1921 Dimitri ahead
- 1923–1928 Dimas ahead
- 1929–1931 Dimitri ahead
- 1935–1942 Dimas ahead
- 1943–2025 Dimitri ahead, apart from one short spell
7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Dimas | Dimitri | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,834 | 9,693 |
| Most in one year | 41 | 408 |
| Babies in 2025 | 20 | 195 |
| Estimated living today | 1,600 | 9,300 |
| Median age today | 28 | 23 |
| Peak year | 1996 | 1992 |
| Best rank | 2,073rd boys | 503rd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,857th | 1,097th |
| First recorded | 1917 | 1917 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,834 | 99 / 9,594 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Dimases alive today are over 28; half the Dimitris are over 23. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Dimas Texas (8.7×), California (2.7×), New York (0.6×)
- Dimitri Florida (2.6×), New York (2.1×), Arizona (1.7×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
Compare something else
Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dimas and Dimitri.