Deidre
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdidɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deidre is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 11K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 394 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deidre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Deidre | 5 |
| US United States | — | 12,807 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Deidre | 394 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Deidre | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | listed | Deidre | 95 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 4 | Deidre | 131 |
| NZ New Zealand | #671 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 10 | Deidre | 66 |
| JM Jamaica | #337 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Deidre | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Deidre is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Ķeltu (vēst. Īrija) mitoloģijā - Olsteras valdnieka Konhobara barda Fedlimida meita, kurai druīdu priesteris pareģoja, ka viņa atnesīs pilsētai postu un iznīcību
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pema Chödrönb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican philosopher
- Deirdre N. McCloskeyb. 1942USnot in their usual nameAmerican economist & academic
- Deidre Hallb. 1947USAmerican actress
- Deirdre O'Connellb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Deirdre Barrettb. 1954USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychologist
- Siobhan Faheyb. 1958IEnot in their usual nameIrish singer; known from Banarama and Shakespears Sister
- Deirdre Lovejoyb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Deidre Goodwinb. 1969USAmerican actor and television actor
- Deirdre Quinnb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Deidre Hendersonb. 1974USLieutenant Governor of Utah since 2021
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,099 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 541 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 539 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 506 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 483 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31 | #2,099 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1977 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1976 | 4 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2008 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1976 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Deidre?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdidɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Deidre a male or female name?
- Deidre is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Deidre?
- In the etymology graph, Deirdre, Deidra and Deitra are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Deidre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Deidre in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deidre.
- How common is the name Deidre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,807 people named Deidre in 2020, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Deidre compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Deidre is the 337th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Deidre?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deidreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Deidre” — the 337th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.