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Dietmar

Boys' name

People + fame

Dietmar has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1958. 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 1964, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Dietmar, 1964

1 in 648,000

Dietmar 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dietmar: meaning, origin, and history

People + fame

Old High German

What Dietmar means

Dietmar means “people + fame”, associated with diot and mari.

Origin, language, and formation

Dietmar is used in German and Middle High German. Its origins include Old High German.

Dietmar comes through Old High German Diotmar, Proto-West Germanic *Þeudumārī and Proto-Germanic *Þeudōmēraz.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Dietmar between 1958 and 1964. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1964; its best national rank was #3,714 in 1964.

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 Dietmar?

Dietmar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1964
1 in 648,000
6 of 3,887,460 births
Among boys only
1 in 332,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1964
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
449,098 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dietmar 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 1964 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 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dietmar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dietmars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dietmar was born before 1964 — so the typical Dietmar is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Dietmar 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (6)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,714
1964

Spellings of Dietmar

Dietmar is not the most common spelling — Delmar is, with 86.4% against Dietmar's 0.07%.

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.

Dietmar around the world

Where Dietmar 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.

  • France
    1941–1950
    #1,048
    in 1950
  • South Australia
    1954–1972
    #479
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dietmar 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
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Best rank ever
#3,714
1964
Peak year
1964
6 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
1964
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dietmar

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

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Sibling names for Dietmar

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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