Didi
Didi was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 192 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Didi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Didi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Didi is “a female given name.”
Also “a hypocorism of the given name Deirdre.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Didi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,869, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1971, the peak
Didi peaked in 1971, when 19 girls were given it, #3,400 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #13,869 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,096 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,462 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,592 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,673 | 9.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,013 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,672 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,514 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,400 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,825 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 9 | #5,148 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,865 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,972 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,978 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,611 | 3.7 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,035 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,624 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,598 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,732 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,579 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,745 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,058 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,375 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,593 | 3.8 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,801 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Didi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Didi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Didi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Didi, and how old are they?
An estimated 170 Americans named Didi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 49 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 710 people named Didi (558 women and girls, 152 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,720 babies since 1880, Didi is the third most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 153 babies recorded by SSA was a Didi (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 Didi
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 Didi and names like it
- Compare Didi and DiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDidi peaked in 1971.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Didi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Didi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.