Dirlam is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Dirlam
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

The Dirlam is variant form of Darling. "Ælfmar Dyrling, a noble youth, is mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle. Author says, yrling and cild, (darling and child ) are terms used to denote the young nobles of a house, perhaps exclusively the eldest son, in whom all expectation rests." The difficulty is, to account for such designations having become hereditary surnames".

Is a variant of the Darling. Descendant of Deorling meaning "beloved".

The form of Dearling. See Darling - "Ælfmar Dyrling, a noble youth, is mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle. Author says, yrling and cild, (darling and child ) are terms used to denote the young nobles of a house, perhaps exclusively the eldest son, in whom all expectation rests." The difficulty is, to account for such designations having become hereditary surnames".

The variant form of Dorling. Probably the same as Darling. A.S. deorling.

How popular is Dirlam?

Dirlam is common in United States.

Dirlam is ranked 585338 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Dirlams plummeted by 11.36 per cent to 273 since 2000 and slipped by 10420 spots and ranked at 71478. The last name was found in merely 9 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.41 91.23
Hispanic or Latino 3.66 3.9
Dirlam is an uncommon last name, few people in United States and Germany have the family name. Around 534 people have been found who wears Dirlam as their family name. Few people around the world have Dirlam as their surname. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundreds of Dirlam:
69,051 United States394
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
62,206 Germany93
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
237,148 Russia26
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
91,312 Czechia8
63,315 Switzerland8

Immigrants to US

From Germany

Georg Dirlam was 28 years old when he migrated to USA on July 14, 1877. He lived in Germany where he worked as cigar maker and took Weser from Bremen. Otto Dirlam (16) Laborer, are others that migrated to US.

Dirlam Namesakes

  • Derek Dirlam played leading role of Frankenstein in 2010 comedy, horror film Night on Has Been Mountain.

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