Deirdre
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1961 · 799 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,845since 1921
Deirdre over time
Rank among girls' names. Deirdre has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 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 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 |
| 2010 | #5,108 | 27 |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 |
| 2005 | #3,052 | 52 |
| 2004 | #2,424 | 70 |
| 2003 | #2,707 | 58 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 |
| 2001 | #2,259 | 71 |
| 2000 | #2,016 | 82 |
| 1999 | #1,719 | 94 |
| 1998 | #1,899 | 80 |
| 1997 | #1,927 | 75 |
| 1996 | #1,491 | 109 |
| 1995 | #1,426 | 114 |
| 1994 | #1,425 | 112 |
| 1993 | #1,237 | 140 |
| 1992 | #1,274 | 134 |
| 1991 | #1,106 | 162 |
| 1990 | #990 | 186 |
| 1989 | #986 | 175 |
| 1988 | #949 | 177 |
| 1987 | #822 | 212 |
| 1986 | #879 | 188 |
| 1985 | #848 | 191 |
| 1984 | #841 | 183 |
| 1983 | #774 | 206 |
| 1982 | #669 | 265 |
| 1981 | #773 | 211 |
| 1980 | #705 | 241 |
| 1979 | #771 | 208 |
| 1978 | #749 | 207 |
| 1977 | #684 | 229 |
| 1976 | #598 | 268 |
| 1975 | #612 | 258 |
| 1974 | #553 | 303 |
| 1973 | #526 | 319 |
| 1972 | #499 | 354 |
| 1971 | #452 | 454 |
| 1970 | #424 | 523 |
| 1969 | #369 | 631 |
| 1968 | #386 | 563 |
| 1967 | #411 | 508 |
| 1966 | #383 | 562 |
| 1965 | #399 | 544 |
| 1964 | #351 | 723 |
| 1963 | #371 | 678 |
| 1962 | #347 | 747 |
| 1961 | #333 | 799 |
| 1960 | #402 | 566 |
| 1959 | #501 | 378 |
| 1958 | #603 | 271 |
| 1957 | #552 | 300 |
| 1956 | #567 | 275 |
| 1955 | #646 | 207 |
| 1954 | #689 | 186 |
| 1953 | #666 | 181 |
| 1952 | #636 | 194 |
| 1951 | #749 | 137 |
| 1950 | #710 | 145 |
| 1949 | #757 | 129 |
| 1948 | #700 | 142 |
| 1947 | #687 | 150 |
| 1946 | #741 | 121 |
| 1945 | #850 | 78 |
| 1944 | #945 | 67 |
| 1943 | #1,556 | 29 |
| 1942 | #1,325 | 37 |
| 1941 | #1,243 | 37 |
| 1940 | #1,313 | 32 |
| 1939 | #2,125 | 15 |
| 1938 | #1,945 | 17 |
| 1937 | #1,914 | 17 |
| 1936 | #1,873 | 17 |
| 1935 | #1,381 | 28 |
| 1934 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1933 | #2,404 | 12 |
| 1932 | #1,957 | 17 |
| 1931 | #1,941 | 17 |
| 1930 | #2,202 | 15 |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 |
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| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Deirdre! It came in at #4,464, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1922–1923, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Deirdre is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Connecticut#318 · 1 in 2,280
- Mississippi#386 · 1 in 2,217
- Maryland#437 · 1 in 3,189
- Massachusetts#438 · 1 in 3,588
- New York#451 · 1 in 3,023
Best ever in a state: #138 in New Hampshire, 1966.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #318 | 8 | 1 in 2,280 |
| Mississippi | #386 | 6 | 1 in 2,217 |
| Maryland | #437 | 8 | 1 in 3,189 |
| Massachusetts | #438 | 10 | 1 in 3,588 |
| New York | #451 | 37 | 1 in 3,023 |
| South Carolina | #495 | 5 | 1 in 3,634 |
| New Jersey | #505 | 11 | 1 in 3,961 |
| North Carolina | #512 | 9 | 1 in 4,140 |
| Tennessee | #628 | 5 | 1 in 5,644 |
| Virginia | #641 | 6 | 1 in 5,790 |
| Pennsylvania | #649 | 11 | 1 in 6,293 |
| Washington | #672 | 5 | 1 in 5,437 |
| Ohio | #744 | 8 | 1 in 8,463 |
| Michigan | #803 | 7 | 1 in 8,281 |
| Florida | #979 | 7 | 1 in 9,917 |
| Texas | #1,122 | 11 | 1 in 11,715 |
| Illinois | #1,133 | 6 | 1 in 12,097 |
| California | #1,194 | 17 | 1 in 12,654 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Deirdre
- 1,671 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #7,885)
- 962 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #7,885)
- 2,904 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 611 spots in 1944 (#1,556 → #945)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 1988 (#822 → #949)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 1961 at #333 (799 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 47 yrs · run 1944–1990
- Highest: 1 in 2,526 girls born in 1961 were named Deirdre (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.5% of all girls named Deirdre (6,321) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 48 | #2,954 (1928) | #4,068 |
| 1930s | 167 | #1,381 (1935) | #2,017 |
| 1940s | 822 | #687 (1947) | #1,012 |
| 1950s | 2,274 | #501 (1959) | #632 |
| 1960s | 6,321 | #333 (1961) | #375 |
| 1970s | 3,123 | #424 (1970) | #587 |
| 1980s | 2,049 | #669 (1982) | #825 |
| 1990s | 1,206 | #990 (1990) | #1,449 |
| 2000s | 544 | #2,016 (2000) | #3,151 |
| 2010s | 206 | #4,981 (2015) | #6,243 |
| 2020s | 85 | #6,409 (2023) | #7,753 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Deirdre in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 8,201 of them was named Deirdre, which outranked 93.8% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).