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Deanna vs Deeanna

American parents have registered 134,743 Deannas since 1880, against 1,948 Deeannas. Deanna is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deanna against Deeanna, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deanna Deeanna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Deanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2014, when Deanna had 233 and Deeanna had 12.

Side by side

  Deanna Deeanna
Total US births 134,7431,948
Most in one year 4,34461
Babies in 2025 85under 5
Estimated living today 116,0001,800
Median age today 5247
Peak year 19701969
Best rank 90th girls1,517th girls
Rank in 2025 2,173rdunranked
First recorded 18991938
Girls / boys 134,477 / 2661,948 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Deannas alive today are over 52; half the Deeannas are over 47. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Deanna Deeanna
England and Wales 1,35013

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deanna and Deeanna.