Given name
Deidre
“a brokenhearted or raging woman”
Deidre is used as a given name. One interpretation is “a brokenhearted or raging woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a brokenhearted or raging woman.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1933. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Deidre through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 14,684
- 11 boys · 14,673 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 541 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,176 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,176 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 541 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 12,807 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Deidre’s family of names
Deidre has a related form in Deirdre. Deidre has a related form in Deidra. Deidre has a related form in Dedra.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 17
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Deidre
- Deidre HallAmerican actressborn 1947
- Deidre BrockAustralian-Scottish politician (born 1961)
- Deidre DownsAmerican physicianborn 1980
- Deidre GoodwinAmerican actor and television actorborn 1969
- Deidre CattBritish tennis playerborn 1940
- Deidre BrownNew Zealand historian and architectural lecturerborn 1970
- Deidre HendersonLieutenant Governor of Utah since 2021born 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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