How rare is the name Dedra?

4,614 people in the United States have the first name Dedra, about 1 in 65,460. It ranks #4,160 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

DEDRA

#4,160

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,614
About
1 in 65,460
This common or more
83.6%
Who bears it

Of the 4,614 people named Dedra, 56.2% reported their origin as White, 36.1% as Black and 3.3% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dedra peaked in 1963, when 190 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19442007
Peak year
1963
Births that year
190
In 2007
9 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,418 babies have been given the name since 1944. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Dedra by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,368. The largest share of babies named Dedra, 47.4%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#4,992102
1950s#2,694404
1960s#1,3681,641
1970s#1,8011,170
1980s#2,865653
1990s#5,322361
2000s#17,73187
Silent Generation 1928–450.8%
Baby boom 1946–6429.1%
Generation X 1965–8047.4%
Millennials 1981–9619.1%
Generation Z 1997–123.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dedra is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dedra has been most common in Louisiana (4.5×), Georgia (3.4×), and Alabama (3.2×), and least common in New York (0.53×).

2,351 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Dedra

1 other first name also has 4,614 people.

#4,160 Rufino · 4,614

Either side of Dedra

#4,158 Kaylan · 4,620#4,159 Belkis · 4,616#4,160 Rufino · 4,614#4,162 Dhruv · 4,611

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dedra, most common first.

#2,674 Deidra · 8,785#7,920 Deedra · 1,866#8,718 Detra · 1,649#12,747 Deadra · 967#24,393 Dedria · 395#49,660 Dedre · 124#50,487 Dedrea · 119

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