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Deeann vs Deeanna

American parents have registered 2,940 Deeanns since 1880, against 1,948 Deeannas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deeann against Deeanna, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deeann Deeanna

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 80 years in which either name was published, Deeann for 44 years and Deeanna for 36 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Deeann Deeanna
Total US births 2,9401,948
Most in one year 13361
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,5001,800
Median age today 6047
Peak year 19631969
Best rank 912th girls1,517th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19371938
Girls / boys 2,940 / 01,948 / 0

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 Deeanns alive today are over 60; half the Deeannas are over 47. That is 13 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: Deeann and Deeanna.