Deanna

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Diana in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, PE Peru and 8 more, Diane in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more, Dina in CZ Czechia, PL Poland, NO Norway and Дина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Deanna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name75K records spelled Deanna14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Colombia

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Déanna, Deánna, Dēanna, Deañña, Dëanna

• Thai given name1.7K records spelled Deanna14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Thailand, United Kingdom, Philippines

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written Donna, ดอนน่า, ดอนนา, Donlana, ดลณา

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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 name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In German, ) Deana [di'aena]: aus dem

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Italian, Variante di Anna

  as a name·Dizionario 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 word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 112 years between 1899–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 515 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Deanna?

We estimate roughly 849 thousand people bear Deanna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Deanna have the most bearers?

Deanna is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled diane.

Where is Deanna most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Deanna is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 105 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.

How common is Deanna compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Deanna is the 40th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

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.

What does the name Deanna mean?

Recorded meaning: A female given name from Latin, a twentieth century variant of Diana, sometimes also seen as a feminine form of Dean.