Dierdre
Dierdre was last recorded in 2009, when 6 babies were given it; 1,115 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dierdre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dierdre mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dierdre is “a female given name, variant of Deirdre.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dierdre?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,768, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1961, the peak
Dierdre peaked in 1961, when 63 girls were given it, #1,407 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #15,768 | 3.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,381 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,458 | 2.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,727 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,966 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,371 | 4.5 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,052 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,203 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,922 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,022 | 8.0 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 10 | #8,040 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,252 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,396 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,527 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,780 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,755 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,627 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,537 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,282 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,981 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,789 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,899 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,741 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,651 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,570 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,666 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,851 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,848 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,695 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,494 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 36 | #2,209 | 20.6 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,006 | 23.1 |
| 1968 | 32 | #2,136 | 19.5 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,985 | 21.2 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,959 | 20.7 |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,750 | 23.8 |
| 1964 | 61 | #1,450 | 32.2 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,871 | 20.2 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,654 | 23.9 |
| 1961 | 63 | #1,407 | 31.2 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,728 | 21.3 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,114 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,996 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,502 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,745 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,749 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,046 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,965 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,240 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,612 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,273 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,760 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,270 | 11.2 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,553 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,076 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,259 | 11.5 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,730 | 3.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,566 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dierdre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dierdre 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 Dierdre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dierdre, and how old are they?
An estimated 975 Americans named Dierdre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 49 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 944 people named Dierdre (941 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,017 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,329 babies since 1880, Dierdre is the most given (84% of them).
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 Dierdre
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 Dierdre and names like it
- Compare Dierdre and DierdraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDierdre peaked in 1961.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dierdre since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Dierdre.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dierdre alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.