Deanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Latin, a twentieth century variant of Diana, sometimes also seen as a feminine form of Dean
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌdiˈænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name.
- GEGeorgia1 in 372as დიანა(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 432as Diane
- CACanada≈1 in 442as Diane
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Deanna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #71 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 604 (measured from records)
- 1 in 105 (inferred from the name graph)
422,752 named Diane, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Dana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Diane in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada, Dina in CZ Czechia, Dayana in EC Ecuador and Diana in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from Latin, a twentieth century variant of Diana, sometimes also seen as a feminine form of Dean.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deanna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #30 | 422,752as Diane | 1 in 787 | 422K | Diane | 604 |
| GB United Kingdom | #45 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 432 | 51 | Diane | 299 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 101,562as Dana | 1 in 105 | 102K | Dina | 41 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 91,742as Diana | 1 in 184 | 92K | Dayana | 70 |
| CA Canada | #21 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 442 | 14 | Diane | 295 |
| MD Moldova | — | 21,754as Diana | 1 in 155 | 22K | — | 52 |
| GE Georgia | #105 | 10,736as დიანა | 1 in 372 | 11K | Diana | 65 |
422,752 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; MVČR — living population register 2017; INEC — civil registry names; e-services.md — living population register; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Deanna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, grafia justaposta de De Anna
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, ) Deana [di'aena]: aus dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, Variante di Anna
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
English: originally a fanciful respelling of DIANA , now often taken as a feminine form of DEAN . It was made popular by the singing actress Deanna Durbin (b. 1922), whose original given name was EDNA ; Deanna may have been derived as a partial anagram of this.
as a word
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of deann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Deanna Durbinb. 1921FRCanadian singer and actress (1921-2013)
- Deanna Lundb. 1937USAmerican actress (1937-2018)
- Deanna Dunaganb. 1940USAmerican actress
- Deanna Oliverb. 1952USAmerican actress
- Lisa Rinnab. 1963USnot in their usual nameactor, writer
- Deanna Milliganb. 1972CACanadian actress
- Deanna Russob. 1979USAmerican television actress
- Deanna Stellato-Dudekb. 1983USCanadian-American figure skater
- Tiana Lynnb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
- DeAnna Priceb. 1993USAmerican hammer thrower
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 112K | #502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 109 | #502 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 85 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 4 | #938 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #15,510 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2009 | 4 | #668 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #4,275 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 1 | #8,163 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2023 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2021 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Deanna mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Latin, a twentieth century variant of Diana, sometimes also seen as a feminine form of Dean. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Deanna?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌdiˈænə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Deanna a male or female name?
- Deanna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Deanna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 423 thousand people named Diane, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Deanna most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Deanna itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 105 people named Dana.
- What are other forms of the name Deanna?
- In the etymology graph, Dina, Deana and Deanne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Deanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 422,752 people named Diane in 2020, about 1 in 787 residents.
- How common is Deanna compared with other names?
- In the United States, Deanna is the 30th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Deanna” — the 30th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.