Dimitris vs Dimitrius

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Dimitris Dimitrius

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 63 years in which either name was published, Dimitrius for 54 years and Dimitris for 9 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

• 1960–2023 Dimitrius ahead, apart from 3 short spells

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Dimitrises alive today are over 29; half the Dimitriuses are over 27. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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