Deona
Deona was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,637 among girls’ names; 1,172 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Deona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 26 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deona?
#13,637 among girls’ names, 2025
Deona fell from #10,327 in 2015 to #13,637 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
36 babies in 1995, the peak
Deona peaked in 1995, when 36 girls were given it, #3,162 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,637 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,887 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,250 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,279 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,327 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,227 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,539 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,225 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,895 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,993 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 14 | #8,560 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,220 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,826 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,447 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,510 | 16.2 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,557 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,125 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,526 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,635 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,559 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,113 | 15.8 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,159 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,465 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,212 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,162 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,404 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,697 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,100 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,959 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,539 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,185 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,923 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,540 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,019 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,130 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,758 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,979 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,386 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,586 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,041 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,686 | 20.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,413 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,008 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,843 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,824 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,732 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,043 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,864 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,361 | 7.8 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,333 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,601 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,487 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,894 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,071 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,075 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,928 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,209 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,322 | 7.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,621 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,859 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,722 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,257 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,748 | 5.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,044 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,940 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,421 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,430 | 2.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,550 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deona, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,172 Americans ever recorded as Deona. The median Deona alive today is 36 years old; half are between 26 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 987 people named Deona (982 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 93 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 280 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 361 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 329 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 53 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 214,304 babies since 1880, Deona is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 174 babies (3.4%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Deona
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 Deona and names like it
- Compare Deona and DeannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeona peaked in 1995.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deona since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Deona.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Deona alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.