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Deanna

Either a variant of Diana or a feminine form of Dean.

Usage languagesAragonese, English, Galician, Spanish
US rank (2025)#2,173

Meaning and history

Deanna is either a variant of Diana or a feminine form of Dean. The name was popularized by the Canadian actress and singer Deanna Durbin (1921–2013), whose birth name was Edna and whose stage name was a rearrangement of the letters in her real name.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 573 births, rank #529
2007: 557 births, rank #549
2008: 525 births, rank #594
2009: 499 births, rank #604
2010: 396 births, rank #712
20112011: 325 births, rank #817
2012: 281 births, rank #917
2013: 279 births, rank #915
2014: 233 births, rank #1,092
2015: 210 births, rank #1,193
20162016: 187 births, rank #1,286
2017: 164 births, rank #1,400
2018: 147 births, rank #1,488
2019: 126 births, rank #1,668
2020: 112 births, rank #1,769
20212021: 103 births, rank #1,910
2022: 97 births, rank #2,006
2023: 95 births, rank #2,050
2024: 80 births, rank #2,303
20252025: 85 births, rank #2,173

Deanna rose from #917 to #916 for girls between 2012 and 2013. Its highest annual birth count came in 1970, with 4,331 births.