Deanna

Where Deanna comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Deanna.

  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Deanna through the years
  1. 1899
    First appearance
    #1,596 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Deanna Durbin born
    Canadian singer and actress
  3. 1936
    Around this time: Deanna Durbin in Three Smart Girls
    Film, 1936 · Source
  4. 1969
    Peak, #88
    4,068 babies named Deanna, its best rank.
  5. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #136.
  6. 1979
    Deanna Russo born
    American television actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a twentieth century variant of Diana, sometimes also seen as a feminine form of Dean.
Namesakes
  • Deanna Durbin · Canadian singer and actress, 1921–2013
  • Deanna Russo · American television actress, born 1979
  • Deanna Nolan · American basketball player, born 1979
  • Deanna Lund · American actress, 1937–2018
  • Deanna Stellato-Dudek · Canadian-American figure skater, born 1983

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. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.