Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch and North German : shortened form of Diekhardt, a personal name composed of the elements Diek, a short form of Diederik (see Dederick) + -hart ‘hard’, ‘strong’.
- German : from an inflected form of Dick 2, with added inorganic -t.
- German : topographic name for someone who lived near a wood or thicket, from Middle Low German dick + the collective suffix -et, enlarged to -ert.