First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Variant of North German Oberdieck, a topographic name for someone who lived ‘over the dike’, from ober (standardized High German form of Low German over) + Low German die(c)k ‘dike’.