How Many People Are Named Deidra?
people named Deidra are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 35,871 people in the US has this name
Based on 10,287 babies named Deidra in Social Security records from 1941 to 2020, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
340 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of DEIRDRE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Deidra in English. Counting Deidra and these spellings together, about 22,860 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Deidra in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Deidra alive today is about 47 years old, and 70% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 37 and 58 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Deidra first appears in the records in 1941 and was given most often in 1980, to 340 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2020.
Babies given the name each year, 1941 to 2020
🏆 Rank History
Deidra has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #548, in 1980.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #548 (1980) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #677 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Deidra alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Deidra were born in Texas than in any other state: about 801 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Deidra was given 3.3 times as often in Louisiana, 3 times in Alabama and 2.8 times in Georgia.
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