Deirdra
Deirdra is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196156 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1944
- 1,172people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,172 girls have been named Deirdra in the United States since 1944, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 56 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 56 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 1960s alone account for 37%.
By decade
In 1961, its biggest year
Deirdra was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Deirdra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tammarapeak 1963
- Dedrapeak 1963
- Deadrapeak 1962
- Diedrapeak 1961
- Deedrapeak 1970
- Bethannpeak 1967
- Delisapeak 1965
- Deidrepeak 1963
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.