girls:
14.7k births since 1933
#1269 (78th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1969
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
14.7k births since 1933
#2168 (72nd percentile)
The name Deidre is the #2,168 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,676 recorded births since 1933. This represents the 72.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,269 (77.8% percentile) for all time with 14,665 births since 1933. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1969.
Deidre first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1933 (1933 for girls and 1969 for boys). Birth data for Deidre is available in 85 out of the 91 years between 1933 and 2023 (85 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Deidre has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Deidre reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 49.7% percentile (ranked #389) with 272 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 276 births per million (ranked 47.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Deidre ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Deidre reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #712) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deidre".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Deidre. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.6% confident that Deidre is pronounced as DEE-druh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEAR-druh, at 25.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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