Dietrich
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Dietrich
This form of Theodoric, familiar via Marlene, is a possible German import. It is an Anglicized ancestor of Derek and all its variations. A noted bearer was acclaimed classical German baritone and conductor Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and there have been Dietrichs in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima,/em and more recently on the TV show Psych.
Dietrich is also given to girls.
Pronounced DEE-trik.
As of October 2026, Dietrich ranked #3777 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1329 in 1972.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,321 | 56 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #3,806 | 28 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,284 | 58 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,539 | 50 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #3,625 | 30 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,954 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #4,044 | 25 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,988 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #3,909 | 28 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,030 | 27 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 35 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #3,777 | 29 | — | 0 |
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Dietrich on lists
Famous Dietrichs
- Dietrich AlbrechtBoy
American soccer player
- Dietrich BonhoefferBoy
German pastor and martyr
- Dietrich FischerBoy
Dieskau, German baritone singer
- Dietrich EckartBoy
German politician
- Dieterich BuxtehudeBoy
Danish,German composer and organist.
- Dietrich von HildebrandBoy
German Catholic philosopher and theologian
- Wilhelm Dietrich von BuddenbrockBoy
Prussian field marshal and cavalry leader
Dietrich in pop culture
- Gordon DeitrichBoy
character in film "V for Vendetta"
- Diedrich KnickerbockerBoy
the fictional 'author' of Washington Irving's History of New York (1809)
- Diedrich HoffendahlBoy
revolutionary in The Princess Casamassima (1866) by Henry James
- Dietrich MannheimBoy
character on TV's "Psych"
- DiedrichBoy
female character in manga/anime "Claymore"