Dietrich — #3338 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Dietrich

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,034 babies named Dietrich between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dietrich currently holds the #3338 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 58 babies received it in a single year. Dietrich is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 149 additional births since 1953.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dietrich performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 400 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Dietrich shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 70 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Dietrich in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dietrich in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,034 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.