Meaning not yet researched.
Deirdre: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #333 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #333 in 1961; #7,989 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Deirdre in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,989 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #333.
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Deirdre: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #333 in 1961 · most girls in one year: 799 (1961).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Deirdre, making it the 7,989th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,733 places from #9,722 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 10 girls named Deirdre in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #333, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 799. For comparison, it was #5,021 in 2015 and #711 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deirdre in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 6 babies. In all, 16,845 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 6,321 babies named Deirdre.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 150 US girls were named Deirdre; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deidre (14,684 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dierdre are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Irish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dierdre (1,115).
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.
No nicknames listed for Deirdre in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,989 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,722 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,484 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,203 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,763 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,008 | — | — |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,794 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,487 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,404 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,021 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,516 | — | — |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,074 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,403 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,989 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,143 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,124 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,046 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,666 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,065 | — | — |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,429 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,716 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1999 | 94 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1996 | 109 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1994 | 112 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1993 | 140 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1992 | 134 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1991 | 162 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1990 | 186 | #990 | — | — |
| 1989 | 175 | #987 | — | — |
| 1988 | 177 | #950 | — | — |
| 1987 | 212 | #822 | — | — |
| 1986 | 188 | #881 | — | — |
| 1985 | 191 | #848 | — | — |
| 1984 | 183 | #841 | — | — |
| 1983 | 206 | #775 | — | — |
| 1982 | 265 | #670 | — | — |
| 1981 | 211 | #775 | — | — |
| 1980 | 241 | #705 | — | — |
| 1979 | 208 | #772 | — | — |
| 1978 | 207 | #749 | — | — |
| 1977 | 229 | #684 | — | — |
| 1976 | 268 | #598 | — | — |
| 1975 | 258 | #612 | — | — |
| 1974 | 303 | #553 | — | — |
| 1973 | 319 | #526 | — | — |
| 1972 | 354 | #499 | — | — |
| 1971 | 454 | #453 | — | — |
| 1970 | 523 | #424 | — | — |
| 1969 | 631 | #369 | — | — |
| 1968 | 563 | #387 | — | — |
| 1967 | 508 | #412 | — | — |
| 1966 | 562 | #383 | — | — |
| 1965 | 544 | #400 | — | — |
| 1964 | 723 | #351 | — | — |
| 1963 | 678 | #371 | — | — |
| 1962 | 747 | #347 | — | — |
| 1961 | 799 | #333 | — | — |
| 1960 | 566 | #402 | — | — |
| 1959 | 378 | #501 | — | — |
| 1958 | 271 | #603 | — | — |
| 1957 | 300 | #552 | — | — |
| 1956 | 275 | #567 | — | — |
| 1955 | 207 | #647 | — | — |
| 1954 | 186 | #689 | — | — |
| 1953 | 181 | #667 | — | — |
| 1952 | 194 | #637 | — | — |
| 1951 | 137 | #750 | — | — |
| 1950 | 145 | #711 | — | — |
| 1949 | 129 | #758 | — | — |
| 1948 | 142 | #701 | — | — |
| 1947 | 150 | #689 | — | — |
| 1946 | 121 | #741 | — | — |
| 1945 | 78 | #851 | — | — |
| 1944 | 67 | #947 | — | — |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,326 | — | — |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,245 | — | — |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1935 | 28 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,726 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,414 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,143 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,595 | — | — |
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).