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Dimas vs Dimitris

American parents have registered 1,834 Dimases since 1880, against 517 Dimitrises. Dimas is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dimas against Dimitris, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dimas Dimitris

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

Dimas has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Dimas had 15 and Dimitris had 13.

Side by side

  Dimas Dimitris
Total US births 1,834517
Most in one year 4119
Babies in 2025 20under 5
Estimated living today 1,600500
Median age today 2829
Peak year 19961991
Best rank 2,073rd boys3,224th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857thunranked
First recorded 19171970
Girls / boys 0 / 1,8340 / 517

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Dimas Dimitris
France 515

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dimas and Dimitris.