Entry № 2380 · Irish origin

Deirdre Deirdre — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEER-dra /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Sorrowful, broken-hearted"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Irish)

A name that means "sorrowful, broken-hearted".

Deirdre is the heroine of one of the great Irish legendary cycles — Deirdre of the Sorrows.

Deirdre peaked in the U.S. in the 1960s. Today it is quietly used.

Sorrowful. Deirdre of the Sorrows.

The name in its native script.

Deirdre
Transliteration
Deirdre
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɪər.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Deirdre stands.

Deirdre does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Deirdres before her.

Real people
Deirdre Mullins
Irish actress.
born 1981
In fiction
Deirdre
Heroine of Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Irish mythology

Names connected to Deirdre.

The number behind Deirdre.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Deirdre reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.