Given name & surname · also French

Dirac

Dirac is a surname, probably from French, ultimately from Germanic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Dirac probably comes from French, and ultimately from Germanic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

Probably from Medieval Latin Adiraco, from Latin Atirius.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Dirac’s family of names

In English usage, Dirac as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Дирак.

Walk Dirac’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Germanic languages

Darriq

Darriq is a masculine given name from Germanic.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Germanic

Dykstra

“dike”

No U.S. birth series

83% boys · 17% girls

Germanic languages

Dirks

Dirks is a masculine given name from Germanic. It is used in English and Dutch.

No U.S. birth series

83% boys · 17% girls

Germanic

Dibert

“people” · “bright, famous”

No U.S. birth series

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Germanic

Mindak

Mindak is a masculine given name from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Proto-West Germanic.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Germanic

Dómarr

“judgement” · “army”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Germanic

Dětřich

“ruler of the people”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Germanic

Cuþlac

“will, desire” · “play, music”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

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