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Deana vs Deavion

American parents have registered 23,476 Deanas since 1880, against 563 Deavions. Deana is still ahead, with 13 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deana Deavion

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

Deana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1905 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Deana had 125 and Deavion had 73.

Side by side

  Deana Deavion
Total US births 23,476563
Most in one year 1,36373
Babies in 2025 13under 5
Estimated living today 21,000560
Median age today 5422
Peak year 19702005
Best rank 232nd girls3,528th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885thunranked
First recorded 19051989
Girls / boys 23,462 / 14193 / 370

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 Deavions are over 22. That is 32 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 Deavion.