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Deaglan vs Deanne

American parents have registered 14,856 Deannes since 1880, against 534 Deaglans. But in 2025 it was Deaglan that was commoner, 10 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deaglan Deanne

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 103 years in which either name was published, Deanne for 85 years and Deaglan for 18 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Deaglan Deanne
Total US births 53414,856
Most in one year 50602
Babies in 2025 10under 5
Estimated living today 53012,000
Median age today 1158
Peak year 20151962
Best rank 2,486th boys383rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,679thunranked
First recorded 19991919
Girls / boys 0 / 53414,851 / 5

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 Deaglans are over 11. That is 47 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 Deanne
England and Wales 35155

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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Related comparisons

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