Given name
Theodoric
“the power of the people”
Theodoric is used as a given name. One German interpretation is “the power of the people.”
Original GermanTheodorich
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “the power of the people.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
From Old French Theuderich, from Late Latin Theodericus; its root is Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Theodoric through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 61 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 8 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 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Theodoric’s family of names
In English usage, Theodoric shares an earlier linguistic root with THEODERIC. In English usage, Theodoric has a conventional equivalent in the French form Thierry. Theodoric has a related form in Thierry.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Theodoric has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Theodoric comes from · 2 names
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Theodoric
- Theodoric the Greatking of the Germanic Ostrogoths and ruler of Italy (493–526)454–526
- Theodoric IIKing of Visigoths426–466
- Master TheodoricBohemian painter (c. 1328–1381)
- Theodoric StraboOstrogoth chieftain500–481
- Theodoric I of MontbéliardFrench noble1045–1103
- Theodoric ValetonDutch botanist (1855-1929)
- Theodoric the MonkNorwegian historian and monk1200
- Theodoric BorgognoniItalian bishop1206–1298
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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