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Deanne vs Deavian

American parents have registered 14,856 Deannes since 1880, against 56 Deavians. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deanne against Deavian, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deanne Deavian

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

Deanne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Deanne had 25 and Deavian had 20.

Side by side

  Deanne Deavian
Total US births 14,85656
Most in one year 60220
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 12,00060
Median age today 5825
Peak year 19621999
Best rank 383rd girls5,219th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19191999
Girls / boys 14,851 / 556 / 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 Deannes alive today are over 58; half the Deavians are over 25. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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