Deedra
Feminine
Deedra was built from the sound and not from the page. Somebody heard the name, wrote down what they heard using ordinary English spelling rules, and the result bears almost no visual relation to the Irish original. That is a different kind of respelling from the usual sort, which starts with the written form and decorates it.
How old is the name Deedra?
Deedra first appears in US birth records in 1944 — 81 years ago. The typical Deedra alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 2,000 people named Deedra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deedra most popular?
Deedra peaked in 1966, reaching #1213 nationally. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Deirdre to Deedra
The story of Deedra
The story the name comes from belongs to a formal grouping. Irish tradition collects three particular tales together as the Three Sorrows of Storytelling — three separate narratives, from different cycles and different periods, treated as a set because each ends in an unbearable and avoidable loss. One is about children turned into swans, one about the sons of a chieftain killed under a broken promise of safety, and the third is the one this name belongs to. The grouping is late and literary rather than ancient, but it tells you what the tradition thought these stories were for, which was not entertainment.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Irish name behind this one has no secure meaning. Sorrowful is often offered, but that is a reading back from the story she appears in rather than a derivation, and it cannot be supported.
How the name formed
- Deirdre
- Deidra
- Deedra
Related forms: Deirdre
Pronouncing Deedra
DEE-druh
Two syllables with the stress at the front. This spelling reads exactly as it sounds, which the standard Irish form emphatically does not.
Nicknames for Deedra
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1944
- Most girls named
- 197091 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1213reached in 1966
- Change vs 2008
- −16.7%5 in 2010, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Deedra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Deirdre in Irish — same name
Deedras among us
people named Deedra are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Deedra sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spelling can be read correctly by anyone on first sight.
- It removes a pronunciation problem that the standard form creates.
- Dee sits inside it as a short form that needs no explaining.
- Deirdre and Deidra are both standard and this spelling gets corrected.
- The phonetic spelling loses the Irish look the name is usually chosen for.
- No meaning can be given honestly, whatever other pages assert.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deedras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,000 people named Deedra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deedra in 2025?
- Deedra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Deedra with classmates?
- Deedra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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