girls:
1.8k births since 1944
#3987 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1944
#5959 (23rd percentile)
The name Diedre is the #5,959 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,795 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 23.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,987 (30.2% percentile) for all time with 1,795 births since 1944.
Diedre first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (first recorded for girls in 1944). Birth data for Diedre is available in 56 out of the 56 years between 1944 and 1999. 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.
For girls, Diedre reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #701) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 45 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Diedre".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Diedre", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 19 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Deidre" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Deidre..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Diedre. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.3% confident that Diedre is pronounced as DEE-druh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-dree, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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