first name
DEANA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 20,148 people named Deana, 79.9% reported their origin as White, 7.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 7% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Deana peaked in 1970, when 1,363 babies got the name.
At least 23,476 babies have been given the name since 1905. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Deana by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #611. The largest share of babies named Deana, 49.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Deana is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Deana has been most common in Oklahoma (2.1×), Kansas (1.5×), and Missouri (1.4×), and least common in Minnesota (0.3×).
19,494 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Deana, most common first.
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