Deyanira
Deyanira was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,643 among girls’ names; 1,957 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,910 Americans named Deyanira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deyanira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deyanira?
#13,643 among girls’ names, 2025
Deyanira fell from #6,293 in 2015 to #13,643 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 3.7 per million.
201 babies in 1993, the peak
Deyanira peaked in 1993, when 201 girls were given it, #937 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,643 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,365 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,460 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,472 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,124 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,100 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,924 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,828 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,073 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,520 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,293 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,841 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,134 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,954 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,020 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,146 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,814 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,600 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,261 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,423 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,637 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,681 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,241 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,828 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,815 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,223 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,259 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 74 | #2,013 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,939 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,286 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,650 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 201 | #937 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,352 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 38 | #2,991 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,347 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,186 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,238 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,271 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,573 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,174 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,636 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,926 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,106 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,863 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,535 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,290 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,926 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,744 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,304 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,445 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,374 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,430 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,989 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,515 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,112 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,430 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,813 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deyanira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deyanira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deyanira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deyanira, and how old are they?
1,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,957 Americans ever recorded as Deyanira. The median Deyanira alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 3,788 people named Deyanira (3,783 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,875 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 10 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 209 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 813 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 734 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 147 |
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 Deyanira born?
The states with the most babies named Deyanira are Texas, California and New York, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 691 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| California | 342 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 36 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 28 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Mexico | 7 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Deyanira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Deyanira is most over-represented in Texas: since 1962 it was given 3.9 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 Deyanira 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,009 babies since 1880, Deyanira is the most given (97% of them).
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 Deyanira
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 Deyanira and names like it
- Compare Deyanira and DeyaneiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDeyanira peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deyanira since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Deyanira.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Deyanira alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.