del amitri's member and songwriter, justin currie, said in 2010 that the band's name "was invented to be meaningless – basically a corruption of the greek name 'dimitri'." in 2018, he said that 'del amitri' was based on the name of the producer of a movie he saw in 1979 – "...probably dimitri-something, but we couldn't remember..." many sources have said that the name was chosen because it is greek for "from the womb", but this is untrue.