Girls' name · since 1985
Deara
Deara has 217 recorded births since 1985 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1998 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #18,966 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,248 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 217
- born since 1985
- 1990s
- peak decade
217 babies have been named Deara since 1985, making it today's #11248 girls' name.
Deara has 217 recorded births among girls since 1985, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11248 as of the latest data, more common than 35% of girls, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1985 to 2025.
- #18,966 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,248 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 217 born since 1985
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Deara ranks #18,966 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,248 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 217 born since 1985, peaking in the 1990s.
- #18,966 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,248 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 217
- born since 1985
- 1990s
- peak decade
Deara's 217 recorded births place it above 73.73% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Deara compares
217 38th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Deara's all-time total is 42% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Deara | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 217 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 21 | 19,840 |
Deara's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Deara's SSA record in two at 2001 and the more recent half accounts for 47% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 53%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1985, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1998 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Deara popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1985–2025
- Peak year (1998)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Deara by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (95 births, 44% of the file).
1990s was Deara's strongest decade.
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Deara births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 11
1980s
11 births
- 1990s
1990s
95 births
- 2000s
2000s
65 births
- 2010s 25
2010s
25 births
- 2020s 21
2020s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 95 births (44% of all-time use).
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What to do with Deara's data
- Deara's decade-level peak was the 1990s (95 total births); usage has since declined to 21 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Deara: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1998)
Similar record span (~40 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1985–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Deara draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.