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Girl · English, from Latin
Deanna
Say it: dee-AN-uh
Meaning
A form of Diana popularized by actress Deanna Durbin; partly also a feminine of Dean.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Rose sharply in the US in the late 1930s with Deanna Durbin's films.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1970s
In the United States
- 134,269 babies given this name since 1899
- At its height in 1970, about 1 in 404 girls
- 111 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Deana, Dianna
Famous bearers
- Deanna Durbin, Canadian-American actress
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.