Dietrich
Last seen for girls in 1978 at #9,750 · #3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
Given to boys 93.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 40 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,063since 1917
Dietrich over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,757 | 29 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,335 | 35 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,879 | 28 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,972 | 41 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,020 | 25 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,943 | 41 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,607 | 30 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,532 | 50 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,278 | 58 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,775 | 28 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,317 | 56 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,763 | 42 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,059 | 37 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,885 | 26 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,377 | 32 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,823 | 27 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,313 | 33 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,384 | 31 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,319 | 30 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,044 | 31 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,188 | 28 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,721 | 22 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,805 | 32 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,608 | 33 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,599 | 32 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,750 | 28 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,590 | 29 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,020 | 23 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,109 | 22 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,347 | 32 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,599 | 27 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,469 | 28 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,373 | 29 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,446 | 16 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,509 | 23 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,215 | 26 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,510 | 21 | |
| 1985 | — | #3,070 | 15 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,437 | 20 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,059 | 26 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,038 | 26 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,110 | 25 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,464 | 41 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #1,794 | 29 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #1,707 | 31 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #1,608 | 33 |
| 1975 | — | #1,753 | 28 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,983 | 22 | |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #1,548 | 31 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,327 | 40 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #1,494 | 33 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #1,615 | 28 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | #1,351 | 35 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #1,731 | 21 |
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | #1,609 | 23 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | #1,450 | 28 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | #1,806 | 19 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | #2,665 | 10 |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | #1,902 | 18 |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 | #1,766 | 20 |
| 1957 | — | #2,631 | 10 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,497 | 11 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #2,207 | 13 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | #3,425 | 6 |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
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| 1940 | — | #2,478 | 9 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,629 | 8 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,471 | 10 | |
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dietrich! It came in at #3,981, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Dietrich
- 422 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,757)
- 263 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #3,757)
- 18 spots since 2015 (#3,775 → #3,757)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1972 at #1,327 (40 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 32,720 boys born in 2016 were named Dietrich (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,327 in 1972, was only 1 in 40,540 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 19.4% of all boys named Dietrich (400) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1962, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,981 (1917) | #3,981 |
| 1920s | 26 | #3,076 (1928) | #3,642 |
| 1930s | 60 | #2,471 (1931) | #3,197 |
| 1940s | 19 | #2,478 (1940) | #3,183 |
| 1950s | 90 | #1,766 (1958) | #2,770 |
| 1960s | 180 | #1,351 (1969) | #2,141 |
| 1970s | 316 | #1,327 (1972) | #1,629 |
| 1980s | 219 | #2,038 (1981) | #2,474 |
| 1990s | 283 | #2,347 (1993) | #2,646 |
| 2000s | 280 | #2,805 (2000) | #3,476 |
| 2010s | 400 | #2,278 (2016) | #3,054 |
| 2020s | 185 | #2,972 (2021) | #3,661 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dietrich in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 304,249 of them was named Dietrich, which outranked 14.2% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,374 names at #8,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 40,540 of them was named Dietrich, which outranked 76.9% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,307Tige41
- #1,307Val41
- #1,307Westley41
- #1,327Dietrich40
- #1,327Alonso40
- #1,327Constantine40
- #1,327Donna40
- #1,348Clemente39
- #1,348Dennie39
- #1,348Dustan39
Tied with 20 names at #1,327; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.