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Deidre vs Deiondre

American parents have registered 14,684 Deidres since 1880, against 433 Deiondres. Deidre is still ahead, with 8 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deidre against Deiondre, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deidre Deiondre

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 89 years in which either name was published, Deidre for 80 years and Deiondre for 9 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Deidre Deiondre
Total US births 14,684433
Most in one year 54148
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 13,000420
Median age today 5223
Peak year 19631996
Best rank 413th girls1,872nd boys
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 19331993
Girls / boys 14,673 / 110 / 433

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Deidres alive today are over 52; half the Deiondres are over 23. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deidre and Deiondre.