Deena
Feminine · “judged”
Deena is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 13,666 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Deena is short and has several possible parents. Dinah is the biblical name, a daughter of Jacob whose one chapter is a difficult one; Geraldine, Nadine and Claudine were all clipped to Dean and Deena in the middle of the last century; and modern Hebrew has Dina as a name in its own right.
How old is the name Deena?
Deena first appears in US birth records in 1910 — 115 years ago. The typical Deena alive today was born around 1969, making them about 56 years old. About 12,500 people named Deena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deena most popular?
Deena peaked in 1970, reaching #396 nationally. Today it ranks #4987, 4,591 places below that high. See the whole 1970 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Dinah to Deena
The story of Deena
Dinah entered English use after the Reformation and was steadily given through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Meanwhile American families in the mid twentieth century were shortening every -ine and -dine name they had, which produced Deena, Dena and Dina from several directions at once. Modern Hebrew uses Dina as a full name too. The double e spelling is American and fixes the long vowel for English readers, which is what it is there for.
Meaningscholars disagree
judged; vindicated
The Hebrew Dinah comes from din, judgment or a legal case, and is generally read as judged or vindicated. Whether a given American Deena descends from it or from a clipping of Geraldine, Nadine or Bernadine cannot be shown, and both roads produced the name in the same decades.
How the name formed
- Dinah
- Dina
- Deena
Related forms: דינה · Dinah · Dina
Pronouncing Deena
DEE-nuh
Two syllables, stress in front, the first vowel long. The double e is there to make sure of that.
Nicknames for Deena
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
- 1910
- Most girls named
- 1969465 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #396reached in 1970
- Change vs 2023
- −10.3%26 in 2025, from 29
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.
Deena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- דינה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Dinah in English — related form
- Dina in Arabic — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, New Jersey.
Deenas among us
people named Deena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 61,818 born in 2025 was named Deena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Deena
- #4987
- Deena on the 2025 chart
- #904
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Deena went to 26 girls in 2025, but Dena is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 56, which makes it the 904th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,083 places above the chart.
- Dena30
- Deena26
About 1 girl in 28,701 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 61,818 for Deena itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Roslyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Deena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Roslyn climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Roslyn's path sketches the road Deena is walking now.
Deena sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Deena is headed
Deena is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Deena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Deena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Five letters and two syllables: fast to write and impossible to mispronounce.
- Dee works as a short form and has an American history of its own.
- It works in Hebrew, Arabic and English households with almost no adjustment.
- Deena, Dena, Dina and Dinah are all in use and near-identical in speech.
- Its origin is genuinely double, so the meaning depends on which parent a family claims.
- It reads as of the middle of the last century, which is heritage to some families and age to others.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 12,500 people named Deena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Deena?
- Deena is one of 2 recorded spellings. Dena is the more common one — 30 births in 2025 against 26 for Deena.
- How popular is the name Deena in 2025?
- Deena ranks #4987 among US girl names in 2025, with 26 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Deena?
- About 1 in every 61,818 US girls born in 2025 was named Deena — 26 in all.
- Will my child share the name Deena with classmates?
- Deena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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