Deidra
Deidra was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 10,287 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,490 Americans named Deidra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 38 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deidra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deidra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,706, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
340 babies in 1980, the peak
Deidra peaked in 1980, when 340 girls were given it, #548 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #15,706 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,624 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,812 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,051 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,791 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,351 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,332 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,284 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,310 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,304 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15 | #7,988 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,752 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,402 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,757 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,125 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,736 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,308 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,093 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 49 | #2,977 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 43 | #3,206 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,545 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,257 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,678 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 110 | #1,488 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,356 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 136 | #1,249 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 165 | #1,090 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 207 | #921 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 244 | #817 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 234 | #855 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 234 | #841 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 231 | #820 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 252 | #746 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 270 | #685 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 271 | #681 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 273 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 237 | #703 | 0.14 |
| 1983 | 264 | #652 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 257 | #682 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 304 | #605 | 0.18 |
| 1980 | 340 | #548 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 206 | #776 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 221 | #714 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 216 | #718 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 187 | #769 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 169 | #811 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 192 | #744 | 0.13 |
| 1973 | 209 | #707 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 223 | #670 | 0.15 |
| 1971 | 234 | #668 | 0.14 |
| 1970 | 272 | #625 | 0.16 |
| 1969 | 241 | #637 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 238 | #623 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 244 | #610 | 0.15 |
| 1966 | 248 | #600 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 247 | #620 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 281 | #592 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 282 | #592 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 261 | #623 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 254 | #639 | 0.13 |
| 1960 | 187 | #747 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 101 | #1,063 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,397 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 79 | #1,187 | 0.04 |
| 1956 | 66 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 62 | #1,276 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 52 | #1,348 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,618 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,483 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,353 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,183 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 63 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 39 | #1,400 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 54 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,547 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deidra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deidra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deidra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deidra, and how old are they?
9,490 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 10,287 Americans ever recorded as Deidra. The median Deidra alive today is 47 years old; half are between 38 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 8,785 people named Deidra (8,775 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,715 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 50 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,710 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,420 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 661 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
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 Deidra born?
The states with the most babies named Deidra are Texas, California and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 861 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 646 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 542 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 520 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 489 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 469 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Florida | 424 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 376 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 351 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 276 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Deidra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deidra is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1941 it was given 2.3 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 Deidra 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, Deidra is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 none of their 45 babies recorded by SSA was a Deidra (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 Deidra
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 Deidra and names like it
- Compare Deidra and DeidreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sDeidra peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deidra since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Deidra.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Deidra alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.