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Deidra

Girls' name

Variant of Deirdre

Deidra has been given to 10,287 babies in the U.S. since 1941. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 340 recorded.

Babies named Deidra, 2020

1 in 668,000

Deidra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deidra: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Deirdre

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deidra means

Deidra is a variant of Deirdre.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deidra is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdiː.dɹə/ for Deidra.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Deidra → Deirdre → Deirdre → Derdriu. The family’s meaning is “rages, resounds”, recorded in Old Irish with the source elements derdrethar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Deirdre.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,287 girls were recorded with the name Deidra between 1941 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 340 in 1980; its best national rank was #548 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Deidra?

Deidra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deidra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deidra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deidras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deidra was born before 1978 — so the typical Deidra is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
9,981
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1980s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (2,699).

Is Deidra rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (340)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#548
1980

Spellings of Deidra

Deidra is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 67.8% against Deidra's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Deidra is used

Across 1910–2025, Deidra was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 20,162 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 6,250
  2. 2Alabama1 in 8,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 9,091
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 10,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 12,500
  6. 6South Carolina1 in 12,500
  7. 7New Mexico1 in 14,286
  8. 8Ohio1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Deidra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deidra around the world

Where Deidra ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1991–2003
    #2,681
    in 2003
  • South Australia
    1953–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Deidra

People whose public names include Deidra, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Deidra by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#548
1980
Peak year
1980
340 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
10,287
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deidra

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Deidra

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deidra, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Deidra

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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