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Deonna

#10,302 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deonna has been given to 3,761 babies in the U.S. since 1946. In 2025 it ranked #10,302 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 108 recorded.

Babies named Deonna, 2025

1 in 368,000

Deonna over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deonna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deonna means

Deonna is a given name.

The naming story behind Deonna

Wikidata records Deonna as a given name. The entity identifier is Q123910191, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,756 girls were recorded with the name Deonna between 1946 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 108 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,484 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,376 in 2020 to #10,302 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,973 in 2015 to #10,302 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Deonna between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1989; its best national rank was #8,186 in 1989.

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 Deonna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,302
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deonna 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 2025 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deonna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deonnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deonna was born before 1994 — so the typical Deonna is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,750
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (974).

Is Deonna 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
−3,293
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,926
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,329
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.16×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.3%
Peak was 1997 (108)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,484
1994

Spellings of Deonna

Deonna is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 51.7% against Deonna's 0.23%.

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 Deonna is used

Across 1910–2025, Deonna was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 91,842 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 50,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

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. Deonna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deonna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,302
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,926
Best rank ever
#1,484
1994
Peak year
1997
108 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,756
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,186
1989
Peak year
1989
5 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deonna

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

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Names with a curve like Deonna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Deonna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Deonna

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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