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Dirk

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Meaning and origin
Dirk is a Dutch boy name. The meaning of the name is `Power Over the People`.


Where is it used?
The name Dirk is mainly used in Dutch and in English.

It is an abbreviated form of
Diederik, used in Dutch.


How do they say it elsewhere?
Dierk (In German)
Theodoric (In Ancient Germanic)


See also
In Dutch: Tiede (M)


More `Dirk` links
Dirk as abbreviation
Actors named Dirk
Dirk in the encyclopedia





Statistics for Dirk

Dirk doesn`t appear in 2007`s top-1000 name list.
The last time Dirk appeared in the top-1000 was 28 years ago, in 1980. It ranked #711 in that year. . 1960 was a `top year` for the name Dirk. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #415. The last time Dirk appeared among the most common names was in 1950. Our records go back to 1880

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See also the US top 1000 names 2007

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Dirk
Great name!
dirk
testing
Kaleena
I love this name, that is what I named my two year old son.. The only bad thing is people sometimes think i am saying Dirt because of my accent.. But It fits him... : )
Dirk2
Just testing!


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