# Deana (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/deana/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,476 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 14 / 23,462 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 147, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 42 | 3,678 |
| 2012 | 57 | 2,982 |
| 2013 | 29 | 4,792 |
| 2014 | 28 | 4,928 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,334 |
| 2016 | 35 | 4,183 |
| 2017 | 23 | 5,555 |
| 2018 | 17 | 6,874 |
| 2019 | 20 | 6,035 |
| 2020 | 19 | 6,137 |
| 2021 | 15 | 7,354 |
| 2022 | 14 | 7,734 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,522 |
| 2024 | 13 | 8,077 |
| 2025 | 13 | 7,988 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 6 | 4,518 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4,038 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 4 | 3,725 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Deana

- Deana Carter, American musician
- Deana Lawson, African American photographer and professor (born 1979)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.