Diedrichsen is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 11 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Diedrichsen
No. of characters: 11
Origin: Germany
Meaning:

Lastname is the form of Diederich. Descendant of Theodoricus meaning "people, ruler".

How popular is Diedrichsen?

Diedrichsen is common in Germany, Denmark, United States.

Diedrichsen is ranked 263902 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Diedrichsen bearers increased by 3.15 per cent in 2010 US census to 131 since 2000, the surname slipped by 4953 spots and ranked at 129825. The last name was found in merely 4 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 100 99
Diedrichsen is not so popular last name but still a prevalent family name common in Germany. On the other hand, it is more oftenly used in Denmark. Around 1483 people have been found who wears Diedrichsen as their family name. Diedrichsen have bearers in many countries around the world. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Diedrichsen:
10,119 Germany1,005
Countries with hundreds of Diedrichsen:
2,614 Denmark220
129,630 United States179
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
23,411 Norway25
139,951 England12
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
81,336 Sweden9
167,054 South Africa8
476,604 Thailand8
69,697 Switzerland7

Immigrants to US

From Germany

Maria Diedrichsen worked as governess and hailed from Luebeck. 16 years old embarked for New York from Hamburg on Gutenberg and arrived on August 26, 1852. E. Diedrichsen, aged 42, 16 years old Hans Diedrichsen, Joh. Diedrichsen, aged 24, Anna Diedrichsen, Ernst Diedrichsen, aged 40, Carl Diedrichsen, Carl Diedrichsen (2), Dora Diedrichsen, aged 8, and 39 other Diedrichsen around 38.46% of whom were farmer while others worked as laborer and merchant, locksmith, joiner migrated to US from Hamburg & Southampton, Liverpool, Bremen, Hamburg & Havre and Bremen & Bremerhaven.

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