Diedra
Diedra was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 1,918 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Diedra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 44 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diedra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Diedra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,838, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
87 babies in 1961, the peak
Diedra peaked in 1961, when 87 girls were given it, #1,185 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #16,838 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,138 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,336 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,889 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,232 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,002 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,746 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,513 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,130 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,697 | 15.7 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 21 | #4,689 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,748 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,388 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,170 | 17.4 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,044 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,863 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,322 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,585 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,485 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,124 | 28.3 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,313 | 25.8 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,289 | 25.9 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,539 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,809 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,792 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 40 | #2,144 | 27.3 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,628 | 19.9 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,223 | 24.5 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,790 | 32.9 |
| 1972 | 35 | #2,182 | 23.0 |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,780 | 30.1 |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,623 | 33.2 |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,691 | 30.2 |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,422 | 38.4 |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,284 | 43.0 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,604 | 29.0 |
| 1965 | 75 | #1,244 | 42.5 |
| 1964 | 87 | #1,184 | 45.9 |
| 1963 | 63 | #1,409 | 32.7 |
| 1962 | 63 | #1,399 | 32.0 |
| 1961 | 87 | #1,185 | 43.1 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,701 | 21.8 |
| 1959 | 32 | #1,993 | 15.8 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,887 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 20 | #2,581 | 9.8 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,937 | 15.4 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,862 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,053 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,964 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,081 | 12.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,546 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,939 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,085 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,828 | 15.9 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,797 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,410 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,600 | 20.7 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,979 | 14.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Diedra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Diedra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Diedra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diedra, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,918 Americans ever recorded as Diedra. The median Diedra alive today is 56 years old; half are between 44 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 1,586 people named Diedra (1,583 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,772 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 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 499 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 684 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 468 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 34 |
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 Diedra born?
The states with the most babies named Diedra are Texas, California and Louisiana, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 140 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 101 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Louisiana | 81 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| New York | 38 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Diedra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Diedra 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 Diedra 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 5,839 babies since 1880, Diedra is the most given (33% of them). In 2025 none of their 61 babies recorded by SSA was a Diedra (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 Diedra
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 Diedra and names like it
- Compare Diedra and DiedreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDiedra peaked in 1961.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diedra since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Diedra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Diedra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.