Deidre

Where Deidre comes from

Deidre hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #4,218 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Deidre Hall born
    American actress
  3. 1963
    Peak, #413
    541 babies named Deidre — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #603.
  5. 1980
    Deidre Downs born
    American physician
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Deidre Hall · American actress, born 1947
  • Deidre Downs · American physician, born 1980
  • Deidre Brock · Australian-Scottish politician, born 1961
  • Deidre Goodwin · American actor and television actor, born 1969
  • Deidre Catt · British tennis player, born 1940

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.