girls:
13.6k births since 1910
#1329 (77th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1969
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
13.6k births since 1910
#2246 (71st percentile)
The name Deena is the #2,246 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,620 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 71.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,329 (76.8% percentile) for all time with 13,615 births since 1910. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1969.
Deena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for girls and 1969 for boys). Birth data for Deena is available in 104 out of the 114 years between 1910 and 2023 (104 years for girls and 1 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 Deena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Deena reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 51.7% percentile (ranked #374) with 324 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 324 births per million (ranked 51.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Deena ranks #923 for girls (2.5% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 5.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Deena reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #660) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deena".
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