Dietlinde
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a female given name from Old High German
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Dietlinde is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name from Old High German
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dietlinde is read
(measured from records)Dietlinde is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German82%
a female given name from Old High German
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
German; gentle, friendly
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dietlinde is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German: from an old Germanic female personal name composed of the elements peud people, race + lind weak, tender, soft.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dietlinde Goltzb. 1937DE(born 1937)
- Dietlinde Stengelinb. 1940DEGerman painter
- Dietlinde Gipserb. 1941DEGerman university teacher
- Dietlinde Munzel-Everlingb. 1942DEGerman legal historian
- Dietlinde Laub. 1950DEDr. rer. nat. Universität Rostock 1977
- Dietlinde Turbanb. 1957DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 16 | #16,901 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #29,733 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #4,719 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2005 | 6 | #1,240 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 5 | #1,173 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #15,615 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3 | #15,616 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #16,714 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1938 | 2 | — |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #132 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2005 | 1 | #1,538 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dietlinde mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Old High German Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Dietlinde?
- In the etymology graph, Dietlind is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Dietlinde a male or female name?
- Dietlinde is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dietlinde have the most bearers?
- Dietlinde is most frequently recorded in Germany.
What do you want to know about Dietlinde?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dietlindeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dietlinde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.