Dimitriu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Demetrius
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/dimitr̪iu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dimitriu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- MDMoldova≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 12K
- ITItaly≈1 in 260K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Demetrius
Cited for this meaning 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dimitriu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #597 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Dimitriu | 56 |
| MD Moldova | #131 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Dimitriu | 20 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Dimitriu | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | Dimitriu | 83 |
| PL Poland | — | 74 | 1 in 517K | 45 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; e-services.md — living population register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Horațiu Dimitriub. 1890RORomanian painter (1890-1926)
- Ion Dimitriu-Bârladb. 1890RORomanian sculptor
- Romulus Dimitriub. 1892RORomanian military personnel
- Toma Dimitriub. 1908ROactor
- Suzana Dimitriub. 1911RORomanian archaeologist (1911-1992)
- Eugen Dimitriub. 1923RORomanian writer
- Constantin Dimitriub. 1938RORomanian politician (1938-2013)
- Sorin Dimitriub. 1945RORomanian politician
- Epiphanius Dimitrioub. 1963GRnot in their usual nameGreek bishop
- Aurel DimitriuRORomanian politician from Sulina, Tulcea County
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)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 45 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 45 | #53,235 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #71,208 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #35,672 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Dimitriu mean, and where does it come from?
- from Demetrius Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dimitriu?
- A machine transcription gives /dimitr̪iu/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Dimitriu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Dimitriu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dimitriu.
- How common is the name Dimitriu?
- In Poland, the national register counted 74 people named Dimitriu in 2026, about 1 in 517 thousand residents.
- How common is Dimitriu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Dimitriu is the 597th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dimitriu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dimitriuThe 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, “Dimitriu” — the 597th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.