Ditmar
Around 140 Polish men carry it, and no boys were given it last year, so meeting one stays memorable. Germanic at root, from words meaning "famous among the people".
Ditmar Pronunciation
Ditmar is pronounced DEET-mahr (/ˈditmar/).
What Ditmar means
Where Ditmar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Ditmar is built from two Old High German words. The first is diot, the people or the folk. The second is mari, famous or renowned. Put together they give the reading that Polish name lists record as "sławny wśród ludu," famous among the people.
It belongs to the same Germanic family as Dietmar, and it wears a plainly German cultural stamp. The medieval form was Thietmar. One documented bearer makes the name easy to place: Thietmar of Merseburg, a bishop and chronicler who lived from 975 to 1018 and wrote a long chronicle of the Ottonian rulers. His book still survives.
In Poland the name stays rare. A boy called Ditmar is usually the only one on the class register, so the teacher learns to spell it after a single reading. There are no diminutives handed down with it, no softened home version, so it tends to be used whole.
The meaning has held steady from that old root. Diot gave us the folk, mari gave us renown, and the name still says what it said in Old High German: famous among the people.
How many people are named Ditmar
1 in 152473 men in Poland is named Ditmar. 140 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2768 among male names.
Ditmar as a middle name
Ditmar is a first name for 140 men in Poland and a middle name for another 41, a 77/23 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1234th, between Dale (41) and Edgardo (41).
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#1232 Bronislaw41
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#1233 Dale41
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#1234 Ditmar41
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#1235 Edgardo41
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#1236 Han41