Deondra
Feminine
Deondra is given to both — 1,354 girls and 415 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Deondra ends in a consonant cluster that English got from Greek. The -ndr- in the middle of Alexandra and Cassandra is not an English shape; it arrived with those two names, was cut loose from them, and has been available as an ending ever since to names that have nothing Greek about them at all.
How old is the name Deondra?
Deondra first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Deondra alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,300 people named Deondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deondra most popular?
Deondra peaked in 1985, reaching #1621 nationally. See the whole 1985 chart.
Where it comes from
From A Greek cluster arriving in two names to Deondra
Our story of Deondra
A name built from a prefix and a fragment has no marker of sex in it, and that is why so many of them appear on the register for both boys and girls. Inherited names carry their sex in their endings and in centuries of use: nobody has to be told which side Margaret or Edward falls on. A coined name has neither. The ending may lean one way — a final a leans feminine in English because Latin and Italian names taught it to — but the lean is weak and the front supplies nothing at all. So the same spelling gets registered on both sides in the same decade, not because it crossed over, but because it never belonged to one side to begin with.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The front is an American prefix with no lexical content and the ending is a fragment cut from Greek names. A fragment does not carry its parent's meaning, so the Greek word about men that sits inside those names does not transfer here. There is nothing to translate, and the glosses printed for this name are inventions.
How the name formed
- A Greek cluster arriving in two names
- Cut loose as an available ending
- An American prefix attached to it
- Deondra on the register for both sexes
Pronouncing Deondra
dee-AHN-druh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The cluster in the middle is easy for English speakers only because two Greek names taught the language to say it; nothing else in English puts those consonants together.
Nicknames for Deondra
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
- 1957
- Most girls named
- 198573 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1621reached in 1985
- Change vs 2015
- −37.5%5 in 2016, from 8
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.
Deondras among us
people named Deondra 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
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Deondra 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
- The sound is transparent and nobody will need it repeated.
- Dee and Dre are two short forms that both stand on their own.
- It works on the register for either child, which the record confirms.
- Deandra and Diondra are also in use and will be confused with it.
- There is no meaning to give, and the Greek one does not transfer.
- It is firmly of the later twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deondras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Deondra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deondra in 2025?
- Deondra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Deondra with classmates?
- Deondra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More D names
The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
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