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Deangelo vs Deaven

American parents have registered 12,300 Deangelos since 1880, against 765 Deavens. Deangelo is still ahead, with 99 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deangelo against Deaven, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deangelo Deaven

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

Deangelo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1960 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Deangelo had 182 and Deaven had 46.

Side by side

  Deangelo Deaven
Total US births 12,300765
Most in one year 47846
Babies in 2025 99under 5
Estimated living today 12,000750
Median age today 2824
Peak year 19902003
Best rank 454th boys2,545th boys
Rank in 2025 1,668thunranked
First recorded 19601978
Girls / boys 21 / 12,279184 / 581

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 Deangelos alive today are over 28; half the Deavens are over 24. That is 4 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: Deangelo and Deaven.