Deirdre

Deirdre was the #7,885 girls' name in the US in 2025 (13 babies).

Deirdre as a girl’s name

  • US
  • England & Wales
  • Scotland
  • Ireland
  • Canada
Deirdre as a girl’s name, US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.06.2512.518.752518801900192019401960198020002020US
Deirdre as a girl’s name, US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.06.2512.518.75251880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSEngland & WalesScotlandIrelandCanada
2025#7,885 (13)————
2024#9,556 (10)————
2023#6,409 (18)————
2022#9,056 (11)————
2021#6,691 (17)————
2020#6,923 (16)————
2019#6,698 (17)——#871 (3)—
2018#7,409 (15)————
2017#8,299 (13)————
2016#6,186 (20)————
2015#4,981 (27)————
2014#5,456 (24)——#876 (3)#2,905 (6)
2013#6,017 (21)——#747 (4)—
2012#6,341 (20)————
2011#5,935 (22)——#695 (5)—

The tide so far

  • Peaked in the US in 1961 at #333.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in the US in 1921.

How common is it?

about 1 in 130,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

Next year

On its recent trend, Deirdre is likely to keep falling in the US in 2026: about 1 in 150,000 baby girls. Likely range 1 in 87,000 to 1 in 250,000.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
DeirdreCanadaGirls—too few
DeirdreEngland & WalesGirls—too few
DeirdreIrelandGirls—too few
DeirdreNorthern IrelandGirls—too few
DeirdreScotlandGirls—too few
DeirdreUSGirls#7,88513