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Deaglan vs Deana

American parents have registered 23,476 Deanas since 1880, against 534 Deaglans. Deana is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deaglan against Deana, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deaglan Deana

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

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Deana for 105 years and Deaglan for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Deaglan Deana
Total US births 53423,476
Most in one year 501,363
Babies in 2025 1013
Estimated living today 53021,000
Median age today 1154
Peak year 20151970
Best rank 2,486th boys232nd girls
Rank in 2025 7,679th7,885th
First recorded 19991905
Girls / boys 0 / 53423,462 / 14

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 Deanas alive today are over 54; half the Deaglans are over 11. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Deaglan Deana
England and Wales 35147
Ireland 98

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: Deaglan and Deana.