Dirk (first name)
Dirk is a male name .
Origin and meaning
Dirk comes from Old High German , is a short form of Dietrich and means "mighty ruler (rich) of the people (diet) ".
distribution
In Low German and Dutch , Dirk has been used as a nickname for a long time, although the form Dietrich (German) or Theodorus (Latin, instead of the Latinized form Theodericus ) is often found in documents . In the 1940s and 1950s, Dirk was one of the hundred most common boy names in Germany. In the early 1960s, the name saw another surge in popularity, making it among the top ten most common boy names a few times during the second half of the decade. Then its popularity began to decline gradually, from the 1980s onwards.
variants
- Derek
- Derk
- Dierck
- Dierk
- Dirck
- Dirg
- Dirko
- Dörk
- Dye (Frisian)
- Dyrk
- Thierry (French)
- Thirk (oldest form th = d)
name day
- January 27th : St. Theodoric (Dietrich) of Orléans
- February 2nd : St. Theodorich (Dietrich) von Minden
- April 29th : Dietrich von Thoreida
- July 1st : St. Theodoric (Dietrich) of Reims
- July 9 : St. Theodor (Dietrich) van der Eem
- September 7th : Bl. Dietrich (Theodoric) I of Metz
- September 27th : Dietrich I of Naumburg
- December 12th : Bl. Dietrich (Theoderich) von Kremsmünster
- December 16 : Dietrich von Rommersdorf
Name bearer
- Dirk Bach (1961–2012), German actor
- Dirk Baecker (* 1955), German sociologist
- Dirk Bauermann (* 1957), German basketball coach
- Dirk Benedict (* 1945), American actor
- Dirk Bernemann (* 1975), German author
- Dirk Blocker (* 1957), American actor
- Dirk Bogarde (1921–1999), British actor
- Dirk Bikkembergs (* 1959), Belgian fashion designer
- Dirk Busch (* 1951), German singer, composer and sociologist
- Dirk Caspers (* 1980), German soccer player
- Dirk D'Ase (* 1960), Austrian composer
- Dirk Felsenheimer (* 1962), German musician, see Bela B
- Dirk Fischer (* 1943), German politician (CDU)
- Dirk Frimout (* 1941), Belgian astronaut
- Dirk Galuba (* 1940), German actor
- Dirk Geiger (* 2002), German motorcycle racer
- Dirk Girschik (* 1985), German musician and opera director
- Dirk van Gunsteren (* 1953), German literary translator
- Dirk Hamm (* 1968), German film producer
- Dirk Henn (* 1960), German game designer
- Dirk Hoeges (1943–2020), German Romanist
- Dirk Jäger (* 1964), German oncologist
- Dirk Kaesler (* 1944), German sociologist and university professor
- Dirk Kurbjuweit (* 1962), German journalist and writer
- Dirk Kuyt (* 1980), Dutch soccer player
- Dirk Lange (* 1964), German political scientist and university professor
- Dirk von Lowtzow (* 1971), German musician
- Dirk Lodewijk Willem van Mierop (1876–1930), Dutch pacifist and anarchist
- Dirk Martens (* 1964), German actor
- Dirk Müller (* 1968), German stockbroker and book author
- Dirk Niebel (* 1963), German politician (FDP)
- Dirk Nowitzki (* 1978), German basketball player
- Dirk Penkwitz (* 1969), German television presenter
- Dirk Raudies (* 1964), German motorcycle racer
- Dirk Riegner (* 20th century), German musician
- Dirk Roßmann (* 1946), German entrepreneur
- Dirk Sager (1940–2014), German journalist
- Dirk Schäfer (* 1961), German film director
- Dirk Schlegel (* 1961), German soccer player
- Dirk Schneider (1939–2002), German politician (Greens) and GDR agent
- Dirk Schoedon (* 1964), German actor
- Dirk Steffens (* 1967), German television presenter
- Dirk Stermann (* 1965), German cabaret artist
Dierk
- Dierk Berner (* 1957), German real estate agent and handball player
- Dierk Prawdzik (* 1962), German actor
- Dierk Puls (1913–1994), Schleswig-Holstein author, Germanist
- Dierk Raabe (* 1965), German engineer and materials scientist
- Dierk Schmidt (* 1965), German artist
- Dierk Henning Schnitzler (* 1937), German lawyer, police officer and police president (Water Police NRW, Bonn)
- Dierk Stemmler (* 1935), German art historian and curator