Name: Deirdre
Gender: Female
Usage: Deirdre, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Deirdre are in general originating from France, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Deirdre is: Sorrowful, Sad one.
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Numerology of the first name Deirdre: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Deirdre is ranked on the 1,984th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 209200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. The name Deirdre has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Deirdre for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Irish and English: name borne in Celtic legend by a tragic heroine, sometimes referred to as ‘Deirdre of the Sorrows’. The story goes that she was betrothed to Conchobhar, King of Ulster, but instead eloped with her beloved Naoise. Eventually, however, the jilted king murdered Naoise and his brothers, and Deirdre herself died of a broken heart. She is sometimes taken as symbolic of the fate of Ireland under English rule, but this has not stopped her name's being used by English parents with no Celtic blood in them. It became popular in Ireland and elsewhere in the Edwardian era, following retellings of the legend by both the poet W. B. Yeats (1907) and the playwright J. M. Synge (1910). The name itself is of uncertain derivation; the earliest Celtic forms are very variable.
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