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Dejana

Girls' name

Feminine form of Dejan

Dejana has been given to 172 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Dejana, 2009

1 in 764,000

Dejana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dejana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Dejan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dejana means

Dejana is a feminine form of Dejan.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dejana is used in Serbian, Croatian and Slovene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dejana → Dejan. The family’s meaning is “to do or deed, action”, recorded in the naming reference for Dejan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dejan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 172 girls were recorded with the name Dejana between 1991 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,946 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dejana?

Dejana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dejana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dejana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dejanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dejana was born before 2000 — so the typical Dejana is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
172
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Dejana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (16)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,946
1997

Spellings of Dejana

Dejana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 38.8% against Dejana's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dejana is used

Across 1910–2025, Dejana was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dejana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dejana around the world

Where Dejana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1976–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dejana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,946
1997
Peak year
1997
16 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
172
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dejana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DejuanaThianaHalanaSayanaSohanaUlyanaJiyanaDejaneSevanaMaianaMayanaSeranaAyaanaKohanaAidanaLivanaOlianaLevanaDhyanaAfsanaIvianaAytanaKaianaSiyana

Sibling names for Dejana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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