Deirdre

Deirdre thought that the stars had aligned themselves in her favour when she inherited millions from her grandfather.

Deirdre Carney suspected she might have COVID-19 when her temperature began to fluctuate above the normal 37 degrees Celsius.

Deirdre, it seemed to him, was the most beautiful name in the world. But Mrs. Stanley had different views on nomenclature. She had never, she declared, heard so utterly preposterous a name. […]"Theatre and saltpetre are both spelt that way, Arthur; depend upon it, it is Deirder - a sort of peasant name like Darby and Biddy, a corruption of something else."

His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.