Given name & surname · also Germanic
Dietmar
“one who is famous”
Dietmar is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who is famous.”
Original GermanTim
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who is famous.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
From Old High German Diotmar, from Proto-West Germanic *Þeudumārī, from Proto-Germanic *Þeudōmēraz.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dietmar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1964. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 354 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dietmar’s family of names
In German usage, Dietmar has a diminutive in Tim. In German usage, Dietmar shares a linguistic root with the Old English form Þeodmær. In Middle High German usage, Dietmar has a related form in Deitmar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dietmar has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Germanic roots to each of them.
27 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 26
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Timdiminutive · German
- Timodiminutive · German
- Dettmarvariant · German
- Dittmersvariant · German
- Dithmersvariant · German
- Detmersvariant · German
- Dethmersvariant · German
- Dittmervariant · German
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- Dittmärvariant · German
- Dithmervariant · German
- Dittmarvariant · German
- Ditmarvariant · German, Middle High German
- Dithmarvariant · German, Middle High German
- Dettmervariant · German
- Detmervariant · German
- Detmarvariant · German
- Deitmarvariant · German, Middle High German
- Diettmarvariant · German
- Teutomarvariant · German
- Theodemarvariant · German
- Thietmarvariant · German
- Deitmarrvariant
- Dietmarrvariant
- Diemarvariant · Middle High German
- Teitmarvariant · Middle High German
- Tietmarvariant · Middle High German
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dietmar
- Dietmar HamannGerman association football player and managerborn 1973
- Thietmar of MerseburgGerman bishop and historian (975–1018)
- Dietmar MögenburgGerman high jumperborn 1961
- Dietmar BartschGerman politicianborn 1958
- Dietmar KühbauerAustrian association football playerborn 1971
- Dietmar LorenzEast German judoka (1950-2021)
- Dietmar SchönherrAustrian actor (1926-2014)
- Dietmar von AistGerman minnesänger, poet and composer1115–1171
- Dietmar HoppGerman businessmanborn 1940
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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