Deanie
Deanie was last recorded in 1997, when 6 babies were given it; 749 Americans have been recorded with it between 1904 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deanie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deanie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,468, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1962, the peak
Deanie peaked in 1962, when 38 girls were given it, #1,863 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 6 | #12,468 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,977 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,358 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,434 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,383 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,259 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,702 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,625 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,085 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,815 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 7 | #6,709 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,134 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,493 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,224 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,045 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,514 | 8.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,173 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,855 | 10.8 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,273 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,796 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,863 | 19.3 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,215 | 7.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,386 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,776 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 17 | #2,881 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,286 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,376 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,856 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,914 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,538 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,946 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,327 | 10.6 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,033 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,758 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,004 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,505 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,070 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,082 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,426 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,168 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,450 | 10.4 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,563 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,960 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,600 | 21.0 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,471 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,597 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,913 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,460 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,781 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,925 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,647 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,465 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,114 | 8.0 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,296 | 5.2 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,971 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,089 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,753 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,578 | 4.8 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,572 | 5.0 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,150 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,537 | 7.1 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,579 | 4.8 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,422 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,695 | 10.5 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,698 | 21.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deanie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 749 Americans recorded as Deanie, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Deanie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deanie, and how old are they?
An estimated 463 Americans named Deanie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (62% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 60 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 494 people named Deanie (465 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 526 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 179,523 babies since 1880, Deanie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 112 babies recorded by SSA was a Deanie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Deanie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Deanie and names like it
- Compare Deanie and DeannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDeanie peaked in 1962.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deanie since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Deanie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Deanie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.