Dietrich
Dietrich is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 350.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201658 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1917
- 2,183people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,034 boys have been named Dietrich in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 58 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 2010s alone account for 20%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 149 girls have also been given it, 6.8% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Dietrich | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 26 | |
| 1930s | 60 | |
| 1940s | 19 | |
| 1950s | 90 | |
| 1960s | 180 | |
| 1970s | 316 | |
| 1980s | 219 | |
| 1990s | 283 | |
| 2000s | 280 | |
| 2010s | 400 | |
| 2020s | 156 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Dietrich was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Dietrich
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Shawpeak 2020
- Thorpeak 2015
- Romeropeak 2019
- Paulopeak 2006
- Rafaelpeak 2006
- Christospeak 1979
- Evangelospeak 2010
- Jamiesonpeak 1974
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.