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Dierdre

Girls' name

Rages, resounds, through Deirdre

Dierdre has been given to 1,115 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 1961, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Dierdre, 2009

1 in 637,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dierdre: meaning, origin, and history

Rages, resounds, through Deirdre

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dierdre means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Dierdre is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Deirdre and Derdriu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,115 girls were recorded with the name Dierdre between 1941 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,407 in 1961.

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 Dierdre?

Dierdre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dierdre 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 2009 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 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dierdre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dierdres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dierdre was born before 1966 — so the typical Dierdre is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,030
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1960s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (436).

Is Dierdre 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 1961 (63)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,407
1961

Spellings of Dierdre

Dierdre is not the most common spelling — Deirdre is, with 46.3% against Dierdre's 3.1%.

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 Dierdre is used

Across 1910–2025, Dierdre was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 307,540 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 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. Dierdre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dierdre around the world

Where Dierdre 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.

  • Ireland
    1968–1968
    #270
    in 1968
  • South Australia
    1945–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dierdre 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
#1,407
1961
Peak year
1961
63 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
1,115
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dierdre

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

DiedreDietraDiedraDiemDierdraDierraDiegoDeandreDiellaDieshaDeirdreDietrichDiellzaAudreDeidreAndreCassandreDieraDieynabaChandreAlexandreKendreDiennaDeadre

Sibling names for Dierdre

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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