Meaning and history
Dirk is a Dutch and Low German short form of Diederik. The name was borne by several counts of Frisia and Holland beginning in the 10th century, and it was popularized in the English-speaking world by actor Dirk Bogarde (1921–1999), who had some Dutch ancestry. It is also the Scots word for a type of dagger.
20062006: 46 births, rank #2,578
2007: 43 births, rank #2,765
2008: 42 births, rank #2,828
2009: 38 births, rank #3,045
2010: 27 births, rank #3,812
20112011: 40 births, rank #2,904
2012: 27 births, rank #3,807
2013: 26 births, rank #3,864
2014: 27 births, rank #3,787
2015: 25 births, rank #4,080
20162016: 24 births, rank #4,199
2017: 34 births, rank #3,312
2018: 18 births, rank #5,106
2019: 31 births, rank #3,571
2020: 25 births, rank #4,020
20212021: 19 births, rank #4,936
2022: 19 births, rank #5,019
2023: 20 births, rank #4,886
2024: 12 births, rank #6,832
20252025: 21 births, rank #4,707
Dirk moved from #891 to #986 for boys between 1988 and 1989. Its highest annual birth count came in 1954, with 438 births.