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Deaira vs Deanne

American parents have registered 14,856 Deannes since 1880, against 590 Deairas. But in 2025 it was Deaira that was commoner, 8 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deaira 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 81 years and Deaira for 22 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Deaira Deanne
Total US births 59014,856
Most in one year 28602
Babies in 2025 8under 5
Estimated living today 58012,000
Median age today 2158
Peak year 19981962
Best rank 4,023rd girls383rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,917thunranked
First recorded 19871919
Girls / boys 590 / 014,851 / 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 Deairas are over 21. That is 37 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.

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