Dima
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: "An incessant gentle rain unaccompanied by wind, thunder, or lightning."*°
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɪmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dima is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 226K
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"An incessant gentle rain unaccompanied by wind, thunder, or lightning."*°
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dima is read(measured from records)
Dima is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic19%
"An incessant gentle rain unaccompanied by wind, thunder, or lightning."*°
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
incessant gentle rain without wind, thunder, or lightning
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Russian16%
"people." Fem of Dim.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English15%
A transliteration of the Russian male given name diminutive Ди́ма (Díma).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dima in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dima counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Dima | 12 |
| RU Russia | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Dima | 92 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Dima | 99 |
| US United States | 1,473 | 1 in 226K | 1K | Dima | 253 |
| IL Israel | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Dima | 62 |
| SE Sweden | 560 | 1 in 18K | 560 | — | 14 |
| MD Moldova | 203 | 1 in 17K | 203 | — | 13 |
| EE Estonia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 9 | — | 15 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dima is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Torrential rain’. The word has positive connotations in Arabic. Diya’ ¢ ‘Brightness’. Du‘a’ 9 ‘Prayer’. Duha ° ‘Morning’. F
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
- žr. Dimd. DiMANAS An. Plg. lat. Dimans (RTAS 104), Dimanis (LAG 148), vok. Diemann ar pan. (J. Brechenmacher, 1960, p. 308). DiMAS Klp —žr. Dimd
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dima Hamdanb. 1975PSPalestinian film director
- Dima Moussab. 1978SYSyrian politician
- Dima Kandalaftb. 1979SYSyrian actress
- Dima Al JoundiLBLebanese filmmaker
- Dima JelezogloMDMoldovan singer
- Abdoulaye Dima DaboGNGuinean businessperson
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 79 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #9,428 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 560 | #2,557 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 486 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 431 | #9,428 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 203 | #676 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #2,325 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dima mean, and where does it come from?
- "An incessant gentle rain unaccompanied by wind, thunder, or lightning."*° Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Dima?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Dimitri and Dmitry.
- In which country does Dima have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Dima in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dima.
- How do you pronounce Dima?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪmə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Dima a male or female name?
- Dima is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How common is the name Dima?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,473 people named Dima in 2020, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dima?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dimaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dima”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.