Deidra — girls' name

What the Data Says About Deidra

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,287 babies named Deidra between 1941 and 2020, spanning 80 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Deidra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 340 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Deidra performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 2,699 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Deidra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 861 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Deidra in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Deidra in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,287 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.