Name: Dirk
Gender: Male
Usage: Dirk is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Dirk are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Dirk across the world, see Diederik.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Dirk is: Ruler of the people, Famous ruler.
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Numerology of the first name Dirk: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Dirk is ranked on the 2,042nd position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 201600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. The name Dirk has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Dirk for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Dirk is a Dutch and Low German short form of Dietrich. See Theodoric for the origin and history of the name.
Given name:
- Dirk I, Count of Holland
- Dirk II, Count of Holland
- Dirk III, Count of Holland
- Dirk IV, Count of Holland
- Dirk V, Count of Holland
- Dirk VI, Count of Holland
- Dirk VII, Count of Holland
- Dirk Bogarde, English stage and film star
- Dirk Benedict, American actor known from Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team
- Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player for NBA's Dallas Mavericks
- Dirk Johnson, American football player
- Dirk Kemp, South African footballer
- Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
- Dirk Mudge, Namibian politician
- Dirk Willems an Anabaptist martyr and pacifist
Surname:
- Robert Dirk (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player
Fictional characters:
- Dirk Gently, the main character in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
- Dirk (play), an adaptation for stage of the above book
- Dirk Pitt, the protagonist of Clive Cussler's novels
- Dirk McQuickly, the equivalent of Paul McCartney in The Beatles parody band The Rutles (played by Eric Idle)
- Dirk the Daring, the main character in the video game Dragon's Lair.
- Dirk Diggler is the main character in Boogie Nights played by Mark Wahlberg
- Dirk Dagger (also known as Dirk Spanner), the main character in the video game Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol for the N-Gage 2.0 service
- Dirk Strider, a character from the webcomic Homestuck
Flemish and Dutch form of Derek. Its use in the English-speaking world since the 1960s is largely due to the fame of the actor Dirk Bogarde (b. 1921; originally Derek Niven van den Bogaerde). He is of Dutch descent, although he was actually born in Scotland. The manly image of the name has been reinforced by its coincidence in form with the Scottish vocabulary word dirk dagger (from Gaelic durc).
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