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Diedre

Girls' name

Rages, resounds, through Deirdre

Diedre has been given to 1,795 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1964, with 88 recorded.

Babies named Diedre, 1999

1 in 738,000

Diedre 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Diedre: meaning, origin, and history

Rages, resounds, through Deirdre

Irish

What Diedre means

Diedre belongs to the name family reached through Diedre → Deirdre → Derdriu. Its meaning is “rages, resounds”.

Origin, language, and formation

Diedre is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Diedre comes through Irish Deirdre.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Deirdre and Derdriu.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Diedre is pronounced /ˈdɪədri/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,795 girls were recorded with the name Diedre between 1944 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 88 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,174 in 1964.

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 Diedre?

Diedre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Diedre 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 1999 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 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Diedre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Diedres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Diedre was born before 1968 — so the typical Diedre is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,656
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1960s — 33.4% of all recorded uses (600).

Is Diedre 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 1964 (88)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,174
1964

Spellings of Diedre

Diedre is not the most common spelling — Deirdre is, with 34.6% against Diedre's 3.7%.

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 Diedre is used

Across 1910–2025, Diedre was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 235,997 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

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. Diedre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Diedre around the world

Where Diedre 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.

  • South Australia
    1946–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Diedre 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
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Best rank ever
#1,174
1964
Peak year
1964
88 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
1,795
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Diedre

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

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Sibling names for Diedre

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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