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It always struck me as unbelievably dowdy and sad and grey. Like Greer.

I don't really care for it. There's just something about the look & sound of it that doesn't appeal to me that much, although I don't despise it.
I knew a girl from school named it who was a few grades below me. Never met any others since her.

I used to know one! She had the pronunciation DEER-druh and she was old and British.

I have an older relative with this name but have no relationship to her.
I find the name ugly, specifically the last syllable. If anything, it sounds burly instead of feminine. Maybe that's what people like about it? It's not frail or princessy, so that's cool I suppose.

Never knew one, but I have met a couple women named Deedra or Deidra. That seems to be the American rendering of it. It's definitely easier to say than Deirdre.

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In Betty MacDonald's memoir of her time in a TB hospital "The Plague and I" she mentions another patient named Deirdre, only her mother got it from a book and evidently didn't know how to say it, because Betty at first thought her name was Durdree and that it was "some native Swedish name."

It's alright. I've never met one; I think I'm too young.

Usually sounds like Dear dray where I live. It's OK; not a favourite but not bad.

It's ok, the ones I know are between late 50s to early 70s. Pronounced Dee dree

I’ve always admired Deirdre. It’s staid and even a bit pedestrian, but the legend is melodramatic, which is a fun tension.

This message was edited 3/10/2024, 10:11 AM

I knew one growing up, a couple years older than me. She always seemed very cool and sophisticated to me, which has definitely coloured my perception of the name!

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I like Deirdre a lot, although I always want to spell it "Dierdre"!