Diderik or Didrik is a
Norwegian male given name. In
North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also r ...
, the native form would be ''Tjodrik'', but ''Diderik'' and ''Didrik'' have been loaned from Low German and are now a common name in Norway. It may also be a variant of the related
Dutch name
Diederik. People with the name include:
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Diderik Batens (born 1944), Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent
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Diderik Bøgvad (1792–1857), Norwegian politician
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Diderik von Cappelen (1761–1828), Norwegian merchant and politician
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Diderik Hegermann Rye (1832–1914), Norwegian civil servant
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Diderik Hegermann (1763–1835), Norwegian councillor of state and Minister of the Army
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Diderik Schnitler (born 1946), Norwegian businessperson
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Diderik Iversen Tønseth (1818–1893), Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
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Diderik Wagenaar (born 1946), Dutch composer and musical theorist
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Didrik Pining (c. 1430 – 1491), German privateer, nobleman and governor of Iceland
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Norwegian masculine given names
Masculine given names