Demetra as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Demetra

What is the meaning of the name Demetra ?

The baby name Demetra is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced deh-MEE-truh (dəˈmiːtrə).

Demetra is Greek in Origin.

Demetra is a feminine name of Greek origin, a modern and Italianate form of Demeter and closely related to Greek Dimitra. It stems from the theonym Demeter, widely read as “earth mother,” from dē/da “earth” and mētēr “mother,” the goddess of grain and harvest.

In use as a personal name in Greek-speaking communities since late antiquity - often via Dimitra - it spread more broadly in the 19th–20th centuries through the neoclassical revival and the Greek diaspora. Today Demetra appears in Greece, Italy, and Anglophone countries as a rarer alternative to Demeter or Demetria. Variants and cognates include Dimitra, Demeter, Demetria, and the masculine Demetrios/Demetrius (and Slavic Dmitri). Diminutives include Demi and Dimi.