*Pas du tout, mon vieux* Our friendly hoser Thiudareikhs/Dietrich did attend a work/study program in Eastern Rome during his youth, where he apparendly did decide to capitalize on the similarity of his name to "gift from God". AdHellenizing one's name was quite *en vogue* at the time. Examples include Israelite historian
Joseph ben Mattathias who adopted Flavios Iosipos (or
Flavius Josephus) as his *nom de plume*