Deedra
Deedra was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 2,165 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,970 Americans named Deedra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 42 and 61.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deedra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deedra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Deedra is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deedra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,677, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
91 babies in 1970, the peak
Deedra peaked in 1970, when 91 girls were given it, #1,227 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #17,677 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,900 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,160 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,775 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,318 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,527 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,957 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,157 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,578 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,744 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 13 | #6,953 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,137 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,101 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,298 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,302 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,112 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,454 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,169 | 18.4 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,532 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,810 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,672 | 21.3 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,792 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 39 | #2,496 | 22.7 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,741 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,484 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,121 | 28.3 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,734 | 19.8 |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,048 | 30.7 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,538 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,276 | 26.1 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,131 | 28.7 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,872 | 33.4 |
| 1975 | 64 | #1,565 | 43.9 |
| 1974 | 66 | #1,489 | 45.0 |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,593 | 39.8 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,567 | 38.8 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,475 | 41.5 |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,227 | 52.1 |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,468 | 37.9 |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,542 | 33.5 |
| 1967 | 76 | #1,221 | 46.0 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,215 | 46.1 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,277 | 40.2 |
| 1964 | 72 | #1,321 | 38.0 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,375 | 33.7 |
| 1962 | 56 | #1,499 | 28.5 |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,430 | 30.2 |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,641 | 23.2 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,063 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,683 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,674 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,076 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,030 | 14.3 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,801 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,150 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,343 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,718 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,574 | 9.3 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,329 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,005 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,661 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,466 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,359 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,800 | 8.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deedra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deedra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deedra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deedra, and how old are they?
1,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,165 Americans ever recorded as Deedra. The median Deedra alive today is 53 years old; half are between 42 and 61.
The 2020 Census counted 1,866 people named Deedra (1,860 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 437 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 897 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 522 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 95 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Deedra born?
The states with the most babies named Deedra are Texas, California and Ohio, with 70% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 176 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 75 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 22 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 20 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Deedra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deedra is most over-represented in Texas: since 1944 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Deedra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,179 babies since 1880, Deedra is the fourth most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 45 babies recorded by SSA was a Deedra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Deedra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Deedra and names like it
- Compare Deedra and DeidreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDeedra peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deedra since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Deedra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Deedra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.