Didrik
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Didrik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Norwegian, recorded as a male given name, equivalent to English Derek.
- RURussia≈1 in 8.2Mas Дидрик(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Didrik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈17 named Дидрик, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Дидрик
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дидрик in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Derek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Didrik is read(measured from records)
Didrik is one spelling over 3 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.
- Norwegian37%
a male given name, equivalent to English Derek
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swedish19%
Didrik är en lågtysk form av fornhögtyskans Theodarich. Detta namn är sammansatt av fornhögtyskt diot ’folk’ och → -rik. Det fornnordiska Þjóðrekr är troligen en ombildning av det tyska namnet. Namnet har spritts i Norden genom sagan Didrik av Bern. I nutid har namnet blivit bekant genom tv-serien (1990) och böckerna (1995) om Ebba och Didrik av Christina Herrström.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Didrik in English.
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)
Didrik counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Didrik Piningb. 1422DEGerman privateer and nobleman (d. 1491)
- Didrik Slagheckb. 1450SEDanish Catholic archbishop
- Didrik Henrik Taubeb. 1711SESwedish count, admiral and county governor (1711-1781)
- Gillis Bildtb. 1820SEnot in their usual nameSwedish 19th century prime minister (1820-1894)
- Georg Boldtb. 1862FInot in their usual nameFinnish philosopher of religion and socialist (1862-1918)
- Sten Didrik Bellanderb. 1921SESwedish photographer (1921-2001)
- Didrik Tønsethb. 1944NONorwegian diplomat and lawyer
- Didrik Markstenb. 1971NONorwegian alpine skier
- Didrik Solli-Tangenb. 1987NONorwegian singer
- Didrik Tønsethb. 1991NONorwegian cross-country skier
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46 | #13,452 |
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 Didrik mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Derek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Didrik a male or female name?
- Didrik is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Didrik?
- In the etymology graph, Derek, Derrick and Derick are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Didrik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 people named Дидрик in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Didrik?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 people in Russia have Дидрик as their first surname, about 1 in 8.2 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/didrikThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Didrik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.