Deane

5,801 people in the United States were counted with the surname Deane in the 2020 census, making it the 5,757th most common in the country. That is about one person in 51,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,801
Rank: 5,757th
How common: 1 in 51,500
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac an Deagánaigh (“son of the Deacon”), see Deacon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Deane described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.2%
Black, not Hispanic 10.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%

Notable people called Deane

William Deane (born 1931)Australian Governor-General (1996-2001) and judge
Brian Deane (born 1968)English footballer and manager
Seamus Deane (1940–2021)Irish writer and critic
Silas Deane (1737–1789)American politician

People named Deane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Deane

Also a first name

Deane has been given to 4,062 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.