Deana

Where Deana comes from

Deana hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1905
    First appearance
    #1,931 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Deana Carter born
    American musician
  3. 1970
    Peak, #232
    1,363 babies named Deana — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #332.
  5. 1979
    Deana Lawson born
    African American photographer and professor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Deana Carter · American musician, born 1966
  • Deana Lawson · African American photographer and professor, born 1979
  • Deana Horváthová · Slovak actress, born 1958
  • Deana Martin · American singer, born 1948
  • Deana Uppal · Indian model, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.