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Deyanira

The girl's name Deyanira has been in the national records since 1962, with 1,957 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 1,900 Deyaniras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Deyanira

By the numbers

Total US births
1,957
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
30
Peak year
1993
Best rank
938th
Rank in 2025
13,208th
First recorded
1962

How old the living Deyaniras are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,957 babies given the name since 1962, about 1,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Deyanira is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Deyanira is most concentrated in Texas (7.6×), California (2.9×), Arizona (1.9×), Illinois (0.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1993

The most popular girls’ names the year Deyanira peaked:

All the names of 1993

Where Deyanira lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 712 women called Deyanira were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Guadalajara Deyanira 11 0.078 857
Cuenca Deyanira 7 0.071 903
Palmas, Las Deyanira 30 0.051 1,680
León Deyanira 10 0.043 1,242
Rioja, La Deyanira 7 0.042 1,379
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Deyanira 23 0.041 1,786

Listed in 36 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 16 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.