Deandrea
Masculine · “manly”
Deandrea is given to both — 724 boys and 2,233 girls since 1880. See Deandrea as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Andrea is a man's name in Italy. Not a rare masculine use, not a historical curiosity — an ordinary, current, unremarkable name for boys, and one of the commonest there. Everywhere else in Europe and America it belongs to women, which makes it one of the very few names that has changed sex at a border rather than over time.
How old is the name Deandrea?
Deandrea first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Deandrea alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 700 people named Deandrea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deandrea most popular?
Deandrea peaked in 1990, reaching #1702 nationally. See the whole 1990 chart.
Where it comes from
From Andreas to Deandrea
The story of Deandrea
The prefix belongs to the third of the productive American families. La- is the best known and Sha- is the next, and De- works exactly as they do: it attaches freely, carries no meaning, changes no grammar, and produces names that scan like inherited ones. What distinguishes it is the range of what it attaches to. Where the others tend toward invented stems, De- reaches for established names — Deandrea, Deangelo, Deshawn — and the result is a compound in which one half is centuries old and the other half is decades old. That mixture is the reason names of this shape are so often misread as either wholly traditional or wholly invented, when they are visibly both.
Meaning
manly, of a man
The stem is Greek and its sense is not in doubt, which is what makes the split so odd: the languages that use it for women are using a word meaning manly, and the language that uses it for men is being etymologically consistent. The prefix on the front contributes nothing.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Andrea
- Deandrea
Related forms: Andrea · Andrea · Andrea
Pronouncing Deandrea
dee-AN-dree-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. The prefix keeps its own vowel here rather than reducing, which is unusual for a prefix of this kind.
Nicknames for Deandrea
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 199047 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1702reached in 1990
- Change vs 2018
- −44.4%5 in 2021, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Deandrea in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andrea in Italian — same name
- Andrea in Spanish — same name
- Andrea in German — same name
Deandreas among us
people named Deandrea are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Deandrea sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Andrea sits inside it as a complete and independent short form.
- The rhythm is long and even, which suits a full name well.
- It joins a very old stem to a very modern front, which few names do.
- Most children with this spelling are girls, but a real minority are boys; either may be taken for the other.
- Deandra, Diandrea and Deandria all exist and the spelling gets queried.
- The prefix carries no meaning and no page can honestly supply one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deandreas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Deandrea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deandrea in 2025?
- Deandrea is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Deandrea with classmates?
- Deandrea will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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