Demetrios

Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek [1], Greek
Scripts Δημήτριος(Greek)

Meaning & History

Ancient Greek form of Demetrius, as well as an alternate transcription of the Modern Greek form Dimitrios.

Related Names

Rootsda + meter
VariantsDemetrius(Ancient Greek) Dimitrios, Dimitris(Greek)
DiminutiveDimos(Greek)
Feminine FormDemetria(Ancient Greek)
Other Languages & CulturesDhimitër(Albanian) Dzmitry(Belarusian) Dimitar, Dimo, Mitko, Mitre(Bulgarian) Dmitar(Croatian) Dimitri(French) Dima, Dimitri(Georgian) Demeter, Dömötör(Hungarian) Demetrio(Italian) Dmitrijs(Latvian) Dimitar, Dimitrij, Dimo, Mitko, Mitre(Macedonian) Dymitr(Polish) Demétrio(Portuguese) Dumitru, Mitică(Romanian) Dmitri, Dmitrii, Dmitriy, Dmitry, Dima, Dimitri, Dimka, Mitya(Russian) Dimitrije, Dmitar, Mitar(Serbian) Demeter(Slovak) Dimitrij, Mitja(Slovene) Demetrio(Spanish) Dmytro(Ukrainian)

Popularity

People think this name is

classic   mature   formal   upper class   strong   refined   strange   complex   serious  

Categories

currently out of the US top 1000, Dune characters, educators, history, masculine forms, Orthodox saints, saints, scientists, writers

Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Δημήτριος.
Entry updated October 6, 2024