Deidre
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1987 at #6,089
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1963 · 541 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,673since 1933
Deidre over time
Rank among girls' names. Deidre has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | — | |
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | — | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | — | |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | — | |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | — | |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | — | |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | — | |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | — | |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,071 | 31 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,046 | 46 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,133 | 71 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,398 | 58 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,562 | 103 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,615 | 95 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,279 | 131 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,191 | 148 | — | |
| 1993 | #920 | 207 | — | |
| 1992 | #632 | 357 | — | |
| 1991 | #734 | 283 | — | |
| 1990 | #968 | 193 | — | |
| 1989 | #863 | 214 | — | |
| 1988 | #695 | 276 | — | |
| 1987 | #546 | 367 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #554 | 366 | — | |
| 1985 | #570 | 343 | — | |
| 1984 | #575 | 320 | — | |
| 1983 | #582 | 307 | — | |
| 1982 | #630 | 285 | — | |
| 1981 | #640 | 277 | — | |
| 1980 | #575 | 323 | — | |
| 1979 | #575 | 316 | — | |
| 1978 | #606 | 282 | — | |
| 1977 | #603 | 281 | — | |
| 1976 | #612 | 255 | — | |
| 1975 | #594 | 271 | — | |
| 1974 | #577 | 275 | — | |
| 1973 | #564 | 292 | — | |
| 1972 | #603 | 264 | — | |
| 1971 | #503 | 376 | — | |
| 1970 | #437 | 506 | — | |
| 1969 | #472 | 415 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #481 | 399 | — | |
| 1967 | #488 | 380 | — | |
| 1966 | #457 | 424 | — | |
| 1965 | #481 | 389 | — | |
| 1964 | #443 | 483 | — | |
| 1963 | #413 | 541 | — | |
| 1962 | #420 | 539 | — | |
| 1961 | #458 | 455 | — | |
| 1960 | #526 | 339 | — | |
| 1959 | #650 | 237 | — | |
| 1958 | #774 | 167 | — | |
| 1957 | #721 | 192 | — | |
| 1956 | #757 | 165 | — | |
| 1955 | #853 | 129 | — | |
| 1954 | #994 | 96 | — | |
| 1953 | #820 | 127 | — | |
| 1952 | #846 | 118 | — | |
| 1951 | #746 | 138 | — | |
| 1950 | #701 | 150 | — | |
| 1949 | #714 | 141 | — | |
| 1948 | #741 | 130 | — | |
| 1947 | #842 | 108 | — | |
| 1946 | #942 | 78 | — | |
| 1945 | #979 | 62 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,609 | 26 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Deidre! It came in at #4,218, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1937–1939, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Deidre is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Maine#221 · 1 in 1,219
- South Carolina#262 · 1 in 1,437
- Mississippi#281 · 1 in 1,417
- Georgia#293 · 1 in 1,681
- Kentucky#313 · 1 in 2,226
Best ever in a state: #168 in Mississippi, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #221 | 5 | 1 in 1,219 |
| South Carolina | #262 | 12 | 1 in 1,437 |
| Mississippi | #281 | 11 | 1 in 1,417 |
| Georgia | #293 | 20 | 1 in 1,681 |
| Kentucky | #313 | 11 | 1 in 2,226 |
| Alabama | #329 | 12 | 1 in 1,910 |
| Oklahoma | #333 | 9 | 1 in 2,057 |
| Massachusetts | #337 | 12 | 1 in 2,554 |
| North Carolina | #382 | 12 | 1 in 2,738 |
| Tennessee | #431 | 9 | 1 in 3,165 |
| Michigan | #476 | 15 | 1 in 3,972 |
| Louisiana | #501 | 9 | 1 in 3,251 |
| New York | #503 | 28 | 1 in 3,533 |
| Washington | #504 | 7 | 1 in 3,617 |
| Ohio | #539 | 14 | 1 in 5,149 |
| Virginia | #566 | 6 | 1 in 4,864 |
| New Jersey | #587 | 8 | 1 in 4,649 |
| Indiana | #599 | 6 | 1 in 6,039 |
| Florida | #616 | 10 | 1 in 4,687 |
| Missouri | #638 | 5 | 1 in 6,458 |
| Texas | #712 | 20 | 1 in 5,555 |
| Pennsylvania | #995 | 5 | 1 in 13,682 |
| Illinois | #1,154 | 6 | 1 in 12,449 |
| California | #1,155 | 14 | 1 in 11,666 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Deidre
- 3,565 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #10,917)
- Biggest jump: 630 spots in 1945 (#1,609 → #979)
- Biggest drop: 288 spots in 1993 (#632 → #920)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 1963 at #413 (541 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 49 yrs · run 1945–1993
- Highest: 1 in 3,455 girls born in 1970 were named Deidre (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #413 in 1963, was only 1 in 3,563 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.7% of all girls named Deidre (4,364) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 33 | #3,449 (1934) | #4,028 |
| 1940s | 573 | #714 (1949) | #2,053 |
| 1950s | 1,519 | #650 (1959) | #786 |
| 1960s | 4,364 | #413 (1963) | #464 |
| 1970s | 3,118 | #437 (1970) | #567 |
| 1980s | 3,078 | #546 (1987) | #623 |
| 1990s | 1,646 | #632 (1992) | #1,343 |
| 2000s | 275 | #2,974 (2000) | #5,750 |
| 2010s | 49 | #9,150 (2011) | #13,722 |
| 2020s | 18 | #10,917 (2025) | #13,787 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Deidre in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 5,080 of them was named Deidre, which outranked 95.2% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).