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Deanna vs Deaven

American parents have registered 134,743 Deannas since 1880, against 765 Deavens. Deanna is still ahead, with 85 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Deanna 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

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 2011, when Deanna had 325 and Deaven had 25.

Side by side

  Deanna Deaven
Total US births 134,743765
Most in one year 4,34446
Babies in 2025 85under 5
Estimated living today 116,000750
Median age today 5224
Peak year 19702003
Best rank 90th girls2,545th boys
Rank in 2025 2,173rdunranked
First recorded 18991978
Girls / boys 134,477 / 266184 / 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 Deannas alive today are over 52; half the Deavens are over 24. That is 28 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 Deanna Deaven
France 355

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: Deanna and Deaven.