In 2025, 85 US girls were named Deanna, making it the 2,175th most common girls’ name of the year, up 139 places from #2,314 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 80 girls named Deanna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #88, reached in 1969. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,331, in 1970. For comparison, it was #1,193 in 2015 and #253 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Deanna in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 5 babies. In all, 134,743 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 32,337 babies named Deanna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,196 US girls were named Deanna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Deanna ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,106 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Diana (369,771 babies since 1880), Dianna (56,356 babies since 1880), Dena (32,535 babies since 1880) and Deana (23,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deeanna, Deyonna and Deyanna are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Dee and Deedee.