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Deidre

Deidre is a girl's name that peaked in 1963, when it was the 413th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 13,000 Deidres are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 52.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Deidre boys named Deidre

By the numbers

Total US births
14,684
Estimated living today
13,000
Median age today
52
Peak year
1963
Best rank
413th
Rank in 2025
10,917th
First recorded
1933
Girls / boys
14,673 / 11

How old the living Deidres are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 14,684 babies given the name since 1933, about 13,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 90 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1973 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Deidres

People named Deidre with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Deidre is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Deidre is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.3×), Georgia (1.7×), New York (1.7×), the District of Columbia (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1963

The most popular girls’ names the year Deidre peaked:

All the names of 1963

Deidre elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Ireland girls Deidre 30 268th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Deidre against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.