girls:
23.4k births since 1905
#929 (84th percentile)
boys:
14 births since 1971
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
23.4k births since 1905
#1654 (79th percentile)
The name Deana is the #1,654 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,449 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 78.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #929 (83.8% percentile) for all time with 23,435 births since 1905. For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1971.
Deana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for girls and 1971 for boys). Birth data for Deana is available in 112 out of the 119 years between 1905 and 2023 (112 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Deana has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Deana reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 70.5% percentile (ranked #229) with 744 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 744 births per million (ranked 70.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1972, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Deana ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Deana reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #657) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deana".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Deana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Deana is pronounced as DEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-A-nuh, at 23.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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