Meaning not yet researched.
Deidre: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #413 in 1963.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #413 in 1963; #11,176 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deidre in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,176 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1963, at #413.
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Deidre: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #413 in 1963 · most girls in one year: 541 (1963).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Deidre, making it the 11,176th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #413, reached in 1963. That year also had the most girls given the name: 541. For comparison, it was #14,971 in 2015 and #701 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deidre in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 5 babies. In all, 14,684 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 4,369 babies named Deidre.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 28 US girls were named Deidre; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deirdre (16,845 babies since 1880) and Diedre (1,795 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deadre, Dedre and Deedre are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Deedee.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deadre (51), Dedre (44), Deedre (39), Deaudre (15), Deise (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,176 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,779 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,837 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,497 | — | — |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,909 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,971 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,434 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,455 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,303 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,588 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,156 | — | — |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,261 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,207 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,073 | — | — |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,526 | — | — |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1997 | 103 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1996 | 95 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1995 | 131 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1994 | 148 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1993 | 207 | #923 | — | — |
| 1992 | 357 | #632 | — | — |
| 1991 | 283 | #734 | — | — |
| 1990 | 193 | #968 | — | — |
| 1989 | 214 | #866 | — | — |
| 1988 | 276 | #695 | — | — |
| 1987 | 367 | #547 | 6 | #6,295 |
| 1986 | 366 | #554 | — | — |
| 1985 | 343 | #570 | — | — |
| 1984 | 320 | #575 | — | — |
| 1983 | 307 | #582 | — | — |
| 1982 | 285 | #631 | — | — |
| 1981 | 277 | #640 | — | — |
| 1980 | 323 | #576 | — | — |
| 1979 | 316 | #575 | — | — |
| 1978 | 282 | #607 | — | — |
| 1977 | 281 | #604 | — | — |
| 1976 | 255 | #614 | — | — |
| 1975 | 271 | #594 | — | — |
| 1974 | 275 | #577 | — | — |
| 1973 | 292 | #565 | — | — |
| 1972 | 264 | #603 | — | — |
| 1971 | 376 | #503 | — | — |
| 1970 | 506 | #437 | — | — |
| 1969 | 415 | #473 | 5 | #4,534 |
| 1968 | 399 | #481 | — | — |
| 1967 | 380 | #488 | — | — |
| 1966 | 424 | #457 | — | — |
| 1965 | 389 | #481 | — | — |
| 1964 | 483 | #444 | — | — |
| 1963 | 541 | #413 | — | — |
| 1962 | 539 | #420 | — | — |
| 1961 | 455 | #458 | — | — |
| 1960 | 339 | #526 | — | — |
| 1959 | 237 | #650 | — | — |
| 1958 | 167 | #774 | — | — |
| 1957 | 192 | #722 | — | — |
| 1956 | 165 | #758 | — | — |
| 1955 | 129 | #856 | — | — |
| 1954 | 96 | #994 | — | — |
| 1953 | 127 | #821 | — | — |
| 1952 | 118 | #847 | — | — |
| 1951 | 138 | #747 | — | — |
| 1950 | 150 | #701 | — | — |
| 1949 | 141 | #715 | — | — |
| 1948 | 130 | #742 | — | — |
| 1947 | 108 | #843 | — | — |
| 1946 | 78 | #942 | — | — |
| 1945 | 62 | #980 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,061 | — | — |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,584 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,793 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,350 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,357 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).