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Deandra vs Deanna

American parents have registered 134,743 Deannas since 1880, against 5,784 Deandras. Deanna is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deandra against Deanna, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deandra Deanna

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

Deanna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Deandra had 140 and Deanna had 842.

Side by side

  Deandra Deanna
Total US births 5,784134,743
Most in one year 2554,344
Babies in 2025 785
Estimated living today 5,600116,000
Median age today 3452
Peak year 19881970
Best rank 806th girls90th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd2,173rd
First recorded 19551899
Girls / boys 4,927 / 857134,477 / 266

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 Deannas alive today are over 52; half the Deandras are over 34. That is 18 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Deandra Deanna
England and Wales 171,350

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: Deandra and Deanna.