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Deangela vs Deanne

American parents have registered 14,856 Deannes since 1880, against 1,234 Deangelas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deangela 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 99 years in which either name was published, Deanne for 87 years and Deangela for 12 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Deangela Deanne
Total US births 1,23414,856
Most in one year 55602
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,20012,000
Median age today 3758
Peak year 19881962
Best rank 2,093rd girls383rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19591919
Girls / boys 1,234 / 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 Deangelas are over 37. That is 21 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: Deangela and Deanne.