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Dieter

Boys' name

People + army

Dieter has been given to 915 babies in the U.S. since 1953. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1967, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Dieter, 2023

1 in 552,000

Dieter over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dieter: meaning, origin, and history

People + army

Old High German

What Dieter means

Dieter means “people + army”, associated with thiot and heri.

Origin, language, and formation

Dieter is used in German. Its origins include Old High German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dietrich.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Dieter is pronounced /ˈdiːtɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 915 boys were recorded with the name Dieter between 1953 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1967; its best national rank was #1,258 in 1967.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dieter?

Dieter had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dieter sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dieter. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dieters were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dieter was born before 1975 — so the typical Dieter is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
915
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (276).

Is Dieter rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1967 (36)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,258
1967

Spellings of Dieter

Dieter is not the most common spelling — Peter is, with 92.7% against Dieter's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dieter is used

Across 1910–2025, Dieter was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 372,092 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dieter has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dieter around the world

Where Dieter ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    1941–1986
    #2,285
    in 1986
  • South Australia
    1949–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dieter by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,258
1967
Peak year
1967
36 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
915
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dieter

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DieselDierksPieterWinterMisterDierreKutterSutterCutterMasterKolterCoulterGunterJeterSlaterDiezelDietrichJupiterKharterWynterAlisterLusterBaxterAlter

Sibling names for Dieter

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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