# Dietrich (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dietrich/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,212 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,063 / 149 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 14 | 3,468 |
| 1963 | 13 | 3,667 |
| 1964 | 7 | 5,613 |
| 1965 | 7 | 5,424 |
| 1966 | 8 | 4,976 |
| 1967 | 7 | 5,610 |
| 1968 | 5 | 7,283 |
| 1969 | 7 | 6,116 |
| 1970 | 10 | 5,145 |
| 1971 | 7 | 6,774 |
| 1972 | 5 | 8,602 |
| 1973 | 7 | 6,847 |
| 1976 | 6 | 8,420 |
| 1977 | 7 | 7,744 |
| 1978 | 5 | 10,163 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 3,920 |
| 2012 | 37 | 3,068 |
| 2013 | 42 | 2,777 |
| 2014 | 56 | 2,321 |
| 2015 | 28 | 3,807 |
| 2016 | 58 | 2,284 |
| 2017 | 50 | 2,539 |
| 2018 | 30 | 3,626 |
| 2019 | 41 | 2,956 |
| 2020 | 25 | 4,045 |
| 2021 | 41 | 2,988 |
| 2022 | 28 | 3,913 |
| 2023 | 27 | 4,034 |
| 2024 | 35 | 3,347 |
| 2025 | 29 | 3,777 |

## People named Dietrich

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
- Dietrich Buxtehude, Danish-German organist and composer (1637–1707)
- Dietrich von Choltitz, German general (1894-1966)
- Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman (1944–2022)
- Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (1868-1923)
- Dietrich von Hildebrand, German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)
- Dietrich Thurau, German cyclist
- Dietrich von Saucken, German general (1892-1980)
- Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, German noble
- Dietrich Kraiss, German general (1889-1944)
- Dietrich von Altenburg, 19th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
- Dietrich Brandis, German botanist and forester (1824–1907)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.