Dietrich

Theodoric is a widespread Germanic given name. First attested in the 5th century, it became widespread in the Germanic-speaking world, not least due to its most famous bearer, Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. The name was Latinized as Theodoricus or Theodericus, originally from a Common Germanic form *þeudo-rīks ("people-ruler"), which would have resulted in a Gothic þiuda-reiks. Anglicized spellings of the name during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages include Theodoric, Theoderic, Theudoric, Theuderic. Gregory of Tours Latinized the name as Theodorus, in origin the unrelated Greek name Theodore (Θεόδωρος, meaning "god-gift").
As the name survived throughout the Middle Ages, it transformed into a multitude of forms in the languages of Western Europe. These include the High German form Dietrich, abbreviated Dieter, the Low German and Dutch form Diederik, or Dierik, abbreviated Dirck, Dirk, Dik or Diede, the Norwegian Tjodrik, and the French Thierry. Italian, Portuguese and Spanish have Teodorico.
The English forms Derek, Derrick and Terry have been re-introduced from the continent, from Low German, Dutch and French sources. The Welsh form Tudur is the origin of the name of the English Tudor dynasty.

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German masc. name and surname, literally "folk-rule" (Dutch Diederik), from Old High German Theodric, from theuda "folk, people" (see Teutonic) + rihhi "rule," from Proto-Germanic *rikja "rule," from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line," thus "to lead, rule." Variants or familiar forms include Derrick, Dierks, Dieter, Dirk. Compare Theodoric. Theodric the Ostrogoth, who held sway in Italy 493-526, appears in later German tales as Dietrich von Bern (Verona).

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From elements theud (people, race) and ric (power, rich), means: ruler of the people.

Theodric, Derek, Richie, Theodoric

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	1906	German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
2	Dietrich Mateschitz	1944	Austrian businessman
3	Sepp Dietrich	1892	Bodyguard to Adolf Hitler
4	Bürger Lars Dietrich	1973	German actor and entertainer
5	Dietrich von Choltitz	1894	German general
6	Noah Dietrich	1889	American business executive and associate of Howard R. Hughes
7	Dietrich Hollinderbäumer	1942	German actor
8	Dietrich Eckart	1868	German journalist and politician
9	Dietrich von Saucken	1892	German World War II general
10	Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau	1925	German lyric baritone and conductor
11	Dietrich Adam	1953	German actor
12	Dietrich von Hildebrand	1889	German Catholic philosopher and theologian
13	Derek Dietrich	1989	American baseball player
14	Otto Dietrich	1897	German general
15	Dena Dietrich	1928	American actress
16	Dietrich Brüggemann	1976	German film director and screenwriter
17	Dietrich Brandis	1824	German forester
18	Dorothy Dietrich	1969	American magician and escapologist
19	Dietrich Hildebrandt	1944	German politician
20	Bruno Dietrich	1939	German actor
21	Dietrich Lohmann	1943	German cinematographer
22	Dietrich Kuhlbrodt	1932	German actor and screenwriter
23	Dietrich Peltz	1914	German general
24	Dietrich Körner	1926	1926-2001 German actor
25	Matthias Dietrich	1981	German actor
26	Dietrich Hrabak	1914	German flying ace
27	Éric Dietrich	1971	French actor
28	Dietrich of Ringelheim		Saxon count
29	Dietrich Klagges	1891	German politician
30	Dietrich Kraiß	1889	German general
31	Robert Dietrich	1986	German ice hockey player
32	Dietrich Küchemann	1911	German aerodynamicist
33	William Dietrich	1951	American writer
34	Dietrich Kittner	1935	German cabaret artist and writer (1935-2013)
35	Marc Dietrich	1948	Swiss singer
36	Wilfried Dietrich	1933	Olympic wrestler
37	Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel	1777	Dutch inventor
38	Dietrich Allers	1910	German jurist
39	Dietrich Benner	1941	German educationist
40	Fritz Dietrich	1898	SS officer
41	Dietrich Thurau	1954	German racing cyclist
42	Erwin C. Dietrich	1930	Swiss filmmaker
43	Dietrich Murswiek	1948	German jurist
44	Dietrich Schulze	1940
45	Dietrich von Müller	1891	German general
46	Dietrich von Jagow	1882	German judge and politician
47	Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler	1852	German general
48	Dietrich Wagner	1945	Activist
49	Dietrich Hahn	1946	German journalist
50	Dietrich Schulz-Köhn	1912	German journalist and music historian
51	Hermann Dietrich	1879	German politician, Weimar Republic minister
52	Dietrich Walther	1942	German entrepreneur
53	Dietrich von Bothmer	1918	German art historian
54	Dietrich II. von Moers	1385
55	Dietrich Kurze	1928	German medievalist
56	Dietrich Weise	1934	German footballer and manager
57	Bill Dietrich	1910	American baseball player
58	Christina Dietrich	1984	German television presenter and journalist
59	Dietrich Thoms	1917	German actor and voice actor
60	Dietrich Dörner	1938	German psychologist
61	Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling	1956	German journalist
62	Waltraud Dietrich	1959	Austrian politician
63	Charles Henry Dietrich	1853	American politician
64	Dietrich von Fürstenberg	1546	Prince-bishop of Paderborn
65	Dietrich Schwanitz	1940	German writer
66	Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich	1712	German artist
67	Dietrich Lehmann	1940	German actor
68	Amalie Dietrich	1821	German naturalist
69	Dietrich Stobbe	1938	German politician (SPD)
70	Dietrich Hilsdorf	1948	German director
71	Dietrich Flade	1534	German jurist
72	Dietrich Wildung	1941	German archaeologist and egyptologist
73	Dietrich von Altenburg	1300	19th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
74	Dietrich Hasse	1933	German mountaineer and writer
75	Dietrich Heither	1964	German teacher
76	Dietrich VII, Count of Cleves	1256
77	Manfred Dietrich	1944
78	Peter Dietrich	1944	German footballer
79	Dietrich von Gumppenberg	1941	German politician
80	Dietrich Eichholtz	1930	German historian of modern age
81	Adolf Dietrich	1877	Swiss painter and graphic artist
82	Dietrich Brauer	1983
83	Guillermo Dietrich	1969	Argentinian politician
84	Dietrich Varez	1939	American artist
85	Dietrich VIII, Count of Cleves	1291	German noble
86	Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich	1748	French mineralogist
87	Dietrich of Nieheim	1340	Prince-bishop
88	Dietrich Braess	1938	German mathematician
89	Dietrich Schäfer	1845	German medievalist and historian of modern age
90	Kerstin Dietrich	1981	German actress
91	Dietrich Garski	1931	German architect
92	Dietrich Austermann	1941	German politician
93	Janet Dietrich	1926	American pilot
94	Dietrich Bahner	1913	German politician and entrepreneur
95	Dietrich Monstadt	1957	German politician and lawyer
96	Mimi Dietrich		American quilter
97	Marion Dietrich	1926	American astronaut
98	Dietrich von Engelhardt	1941	German science historian
99	John H. Dietrich	1878	American humanist minister
100	Thomas Dietrich	1990	French writer
101	Steve Dietrich	1970	Lacrosse player, executive
102	Dietrich Stephan	1969	American geneticist
103	Dietrich Grönemeyer	1952	German professor of medicine (b.1952)
104	Dietrich Henschel	1967	German singer and opera singer
105	Dietrich V, Count of Cleves	1202	German noble
106	Dietrich Schuchardt	1945	German painter
107	Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow	1757	German soldier and writer
108	Dietrich Kerky	1930	German actor
109	Dietrich Mattausch	1940	German actor
110	Dietrich Tiedemann	1748	German philosopher
111	Dietrich Frauboes	1918	German actor and voice actor
112	Dietrich VI, Count of Cleves	1226
113	Dietrich Birk	1967	German politician
114	Dietrich Becker	1623	German composer and violinist
115	Dietrich Fast	2000
116	Dietrich Birnbaum	1942	German medical specialist
117	Joy Dietrich		American film director
118	Dietrich Schnepff	1525	German theologian
119	Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau	1702	German prince and regent
120	Grenville Dietrich	1960	Australian rules footballer
121	Dietrich von Quitzow	1366
122	Dietrich Klinge	1954	German sculptor
123	Christian Dietrich	1965	German politician
124	Dietrich Schöneboom	1917	German World War II U-boat commander
125	Dietrich Lohff	1941	German composer
126	Frank Sigel Dietrich	1863	United States federal judge
127	Walter Dietrich	1944	Swiss author and theologian
128	Antonia Dietrich	1900	German actress
129	Chuck Dietrich
130	Veit Dietrich	1506	German theologian, writer and reformer.
131	Marek Dietrich	1934
132	Dietrich Jells	1972	American football player
133	Stephan Dietrich	1898	German author
134	Wolfgang Dietrich	1948	German entrepreneur
135	Dietrich Gruen	1847	German-born American watchmaker
136	Dietrich Gökelmann	1954
137	Dietrich Schwarzkopf	1927	German journalist
138	Dietrich Keuning	1908	Former Lord Mayor of Dortmund (Social Democrat)
139	Dietrich IV, Count of Cleves
140	Dietrich Hoppenstedt	1940	German jurist and lawyer
141	Dietrich Bangert	1942	German architect
142	Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch	1746	German historian
143	Dietrich Voigtländer	1958
144	Dietrich Staritz	1934	German historian of modern age and journalist
145	Tadeusz Dietrich	1905
146	Dietrich Sperling	1933	German politician
147	Dietrich Spangenberg	1922	German politician
148	Dietrich Lubs	1938
149	Dietrich Beyrau	1942	German historian
150	Dietrich Schmidt		Luger
151	Dietrich I of Hamelant		Bishop of Metz
152	Wolf S. Dietrich	1947	German writer
153	Dietrich Falke	1927	German virologist
154	Dietrich Ritschl	1929	Swiss theologian and university professor
155	Dietrich Ratzke	1939	German journalist
156	Dietrich Ebener	1920	German classical philologist, author and translator
157	David Nathaniel Friedrich Dietrich	1800	German botanist
158	Dietrich von Weyer	1540
159	Marlene Dietrich	1985
160	Dietrich Kessler	1946	German songwriter and publisher
161	Dietrich Oldenburg	1933	German writer
162	August Dietrich
163	Frank Dietrich	1966	German politician
164	Anton Dietrich	1833	German painter
165	Dietrich IX, Count of Mark	1374	Count of the Mark
166	Dietrich Capler von Oedheim	1876
167	Dietrich Grünewald	1947	German university teacher
168	Craig Dietrich	1980	American academic
169	Dietrich Stauffer	1943	German physicist
170	Gabriele Dietrich	1943
171	Dietrich Stollberg	1937	German theologian
172	Dietrich Koch	1937	German physicist
173	Dietrich von Kyaw	1934	German diplomat and jurist
174	Dietrich Geyer	1928	German historian
175	Dietrich Bartels	1931	German geographer
176	Albert Dietrich	1912	German orientalist and arabist
177	Dietrich Rössler	1927	German theologian
178	Dietrich von Brühl	1925	German diplomat
179	Dietrich II, Count of Cleves	1125	Count Of Cleves
180	Dietrich Kübler	1950	German farmer
181	Christoph Dietrich	1954	German director
182	Siegfried Dietrich	1954	German physicist
183	Dietrich Albrecht	1944	German painter (1944-2013)
184	Dietrich Krusche	1935
185	Dietrich Schmoll	1930
186	Dietrich Erdmann	1917	German composer
187	Dietrich Stoyan	1940	German statistician
188	Dietrich II. von Meißen	1190
189	Dietrich I of Isenberg	1215
190	Wendel Dietrich	1535
191	Dietrich Mendt	1926	German theologian
192	Luc Dietrich	1913	French writer
193	Guillaume Dietrich	1983	German motorcycle racer
194	Dietrich Coelde	1435	German Franciscan missionary
195	Daniel Dietrich von Landsberg	1618
196	Dietrich Haugk	1925	German film director
197	Dietrich Strothmann	1927	German journalist
198	Dietrich Böhler	1942	German philosopher
199	Dietrich Raue	1967	German archaeologist and egyptologist
200	Dietrich I, Count of Cleves	1092