Deanna
Deanna was given to 85 girls in 2025, #2,175 among girls’ names; 134,743 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 115,000 Americans named Deanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 38 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Deanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Deanna is “a female given name from Latin, a twentieth century variant of Diana, sometimes also seen as a feminine form of Dean.”
/diːˈænə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Deanna?
#2,175 among girls’ names, 2025
Deanna fell from #1,193 in 2015 to #2,175 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.05 per 1,000.
4,344 babies in 1970, the peak
Deanna peaked in 1970, when 4,344 babies were given it (4,331 girls, #90 among girls’ names). The 85 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,175 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 80 | #2,314 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 95 | #2,051 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 97 | #2,009 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 103 | #1,917 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,771 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,671 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 147 | #1,489 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 164 | #1,402 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 187 | #1,289 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 210 | #1,193 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 233 | #1,094 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 279 | #916 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 281 | #917 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 325 | #818 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 396 | #712 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 499 | #606 | 0.27 |
| 2008 | 525 | #595 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 557 | #549 | 0.29 |
| 2006 | 573 | #530 | 0.30 |
| 2005 | 639 | #478 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 674 | #451 | 0.37 |
| 2003 | 714 | #421 | 0.39 |
| 2002 | 855 | #348 | 0.48 |
| 2001 | 842 | #353 | 0.47 |
| 2000 | 1,051 | #303 | 0.58 |
| 1999 | 1,132 | #277 | 0.64 |
| 1998 | 1,246 | #244 | 0.71 |
| 1997 | 1,344 | #222 | 0.77 |
| 1996 | 1,390 | #210 | 0.79 |
| 1995 | 1,586 | #188 | 0.90 |
| 1994 | 1,875 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 1,938 | #161 | 1.1 |
| 1992 | 1,976 | #155 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 1,879 | #158 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 1,854 | #159 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 1,757 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 1,738 | #163 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 1,638 | #170 | 0.94 |
| 1986 | 1,664 | #164 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 1,817 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 1984 | 1,916 | #151 | 1.1 |
| 1983 | 1,923 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 1,894 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 1981 | 1,940 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 1980 | 1,868 | #149 | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 1,950 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 2,033 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 1977 | 2,093 | #138 | 1.4 |
| 1976 | 2,116 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 1975 | 2,276 | #126 | 1.6 |
| 1974 | 2,558 | #115 | 1.7 |
| 1973 | 2,796 | #111 | 1.9 |
| 1972 | 3,039 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 1971 | 3,791 | #95 | 2.3 |
| 1970 | 4,331 | #90 | 2.5 |
| 1969 | 4,068 | #88 | 2.4 |
| 1968 | 3,414 | #104 | 2.1 |
| 1967 | 3,348 | #104 | 2.0 |
| 1966 | 3,298 | #105 | 1.9 |
| 1965 | 3,406 | #110 | 1.9 |
| 1964 | 3,575 | #115 | 1.9 |
| 1963 | 3,122 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 1962 | 3,060 | #138 | 1.6 |
| 1961 | 2,683 | #156 | 1.3 |
| 1960 | 2,295 | #173 | 1.1 |
| 1959 | 1,828 | #194 | 0.90 |
| 1958 | 1,381 | #220 | 0.69 |
| 1957 | 1,287 | #236 | 0.63 |
| 1956 | 1,207 | #238 | 0.60 |
| 1955 | 1,072 | #254 | 0.55 |
| 1954 | 980 | #268 | 0.50 |
| 1953 | 886 | #279 | 0.47 |
| 1952 | 818 | #284 | 0.44 |
| 1951 | 910 | #256 | 0.51 |
| 1950 | 891 | #253 | 0.52 |
| 1949 | 968 | #240 | 0.57 |
| 1948 | 1,063 | #228 | 0.63 |
| 1947 | 1,263 | #210 | 0.71 |
| 1946 | 1,276 | #193 | 0.81 |
| 1945 | 1,187 | #175 | 0.91 |
| 1944 | 1,304 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1943 | 1,573 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1942 | 1,447 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1941 | 1,856 | #137 | 1.5 |
| 1940 | 1,802 | #136 | 1.6 |
| 1939 | 1,805 | #133 | 1.6 |
| 1938 | 2,254 | #115 | 2.0 |
| 1937 | 1,624 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 1936 | 77 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,106 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,294 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,000 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,815 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,281 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,164 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,010 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,036 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,204 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,151 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,538 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,996 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,580 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,439 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,658 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deanna has been given almost only to girls: 266 boys in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Deanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deanna, and how old are they?
115,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 134,743 Americans ever recorded as Deanna. The median Deanna alive today is 53 years old; half are between 38 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 112,509 people named Deanna (112,400 women and girls, 109 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 120,609 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6,480 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 24,600 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 42,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,910 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Deanna born?
The states with the most babies named Deanna are California, New York and Texas, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16,254 | #3,215 | 1.2× |
| New York | 8,264 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 7,336 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 7,242 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7,219 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 6,751 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6,096 | #1,445 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 4,366 | #1,351 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 4,114 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Missouri | 3,771 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Deanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deanna is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1910 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Deanna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 227,367 babies since 1880, Deanna is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 163 babies (52%), again the most given.
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 Deanna
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 Deanna and names like it
- Compare Deanna and DenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDeanna peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deanna since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Deanna.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Deanna alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.