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Deana vs Deante

American parents have registered 23,476 Deanas since 1880, against 2,721 Deantes. Deana is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deana Deante

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 Deante for 9 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Deana Deante
Total US births 23,4762,721
Most in one year 1,363155
Babies in 2025 138
Estimated living today 21,0002,600
Median age today 5428
Peak year 19701997
Best rank 232nd girls893rd boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th8,910th
First recorded 19051975
Girls / boys 23,462 / 145 / 2,716

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 Deantes are over 28. That is 26 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: Deana and Deante.